Of the tens of thousands who had arrived a few months before, there were only 10,000 European troops left who could still fight. “Half of the officers in this army are dead” from either battle or disease, he announced weeks later. … As Leclerc wrote in early June, “the blacks” still fighting against him were “increasingly audacious.” In mid-July there were “nighttime meetings” in the northern plain and even in Le Cap itself, animated by conspirators planning “the massacre of the Europeans.” With resistance continuing, he found himself in a bind: in order to keep his mission afloat he had to defer, and indeed contradict, its ultimate goal: the destruction of the black army.

Dubois, Laurent, Avengers of the New World_ …, loc. 413