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There are many reasons that the Spaniards backed the Haitian revolution from the beginning, providing the insurgents with food and weapons: they knew that the episode would cause chaos in Saint-Domingue, giving Spain the chance to send troops to that territory and re-annex it, since it had been a Spanish possession taken by the French in the Peace Treaty of Ryswick (1697).
Geggus, David Patrick (2002). Haitian Revolutionary Studies. Bloomington: Indiana University Press. ISBN 9780253109262. Madiou, Thomas (1847). Histoire d'Haïti, Tome I (in French). Schœlcher, Victor (1982) [1889]. Vie de Toussaint Louverture (in French). Éditions Karthala
The royalist "grands blancs" colonists and wealthy slave owners and the "petites blancs", modest or poor, or formerly, Republican colonists, united in their common opposition to mulattoes and free colored people. The colonists armed their slaves, joined forces with the soldiers of the Artois Regiment and made themselves masters of Port-au-Prince.
The Battle of Cap-Français took place from 20 to 22 June 1793 during the Haitian Revolution.It was originally a conflict between commissioners sent by the French Republican government, who were supported by rebellious slaves and free people of color, against the colony's elite and white royalist slave owners, who sparked an uprising against the commissioners in the city, led to a military ...
Polish soldiers participated in the Haitian revolution of 1804, contributing to the establishment of the world's first free black republic and the first independent Caribbean state. [ 106 ] Haiti's first head of state Jean-Jacques Dessalines called Polish people "the White Negroes of Europe" , which was then regarded a great honor, as it meant ...
The Haitian Declaration of Independence was proclaimed on January 1st, 1804, in the port city of Gonaïves by Jean-Jacques Dessalines, marking the end of the 13-year-long Haitian Revolution. With this declaration, Haiti became the first independent Black nation in the Western Hemisphere.
The Haitian Revolution for independence — in the French Saint-Domingue colony, now the Republic of Haiti, on western Hispaniola in the Caribbean. The main article for this category is Haitian Revolution .
The Haitian Revolution - An illustration of black slaves murdering white planters. The Haitian Revolution was a series of conflicts which began on 22 August 1791 and ended on 1 January 1804. It involved Haitian slaves, "affranchis ", " mulattoes ", colonists, French royalist troops, French revolutionary forces, and the British and Spanish armies.