BFL
“they were sent by Napoleon to Saint-Domingue (Haiti) to suppress the slave revolt of Toussaint Louverture and Jean-Jacques Dessalines. There they perished. “
Interesting. Usually, the Poles supported liberty. Sad that they were used like this. Napoleon planned to use Haiti as a base to grab Louisiana from Spain. That would have caused big trouble with the USA. The failure in Haiti and the need for funding his wars caused Napoleon to sell Louisiana to us.