1To George Washington from Thomas Millet, 20 August 1793 (Washington Papers)
...officers and all the French ships at harbor there. By May, Galbaud’s struggle with the colonial commissioners for executive power had deteriorated into a civil war in which Galbaud led white colonists against Sonthonax and Polverel, who supported equal rights for free blacks and offered freedom to slaves who were willing to fight against the counterrevolutionaries. By 23 June, Cap...