Antoine Richepanse

Antoine Richepanse (25 March 1770 – 3 September 1802) was a French Army officer and colonial administrator.

French troops under Richepanse's command, consisting of 3,000 white soldiers and 600 Black infantrymen under Pélage's command, eventually drove Delgrès's forces into Fort Saint Charles, where they committed mass suicide by detonating the fort's gunpowder stores on 28 May.

[1] Richepanse, having lost 40% of his men either to combat or illness, officially implemented Napoleon's reintroduction of slavery in Guadeloupe on 16 July, and for months afterwards carried out a brutal counterinsurgency campaign to root out remaining insurgents.

French troops committed numerous atrocities during the campaign, including summary executions and large-scale massacres.

Not long after his arrival in Guadeloupe, he contracted yellow fever from which he died at Basse-Terre on 3 September 1802.