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Haitian Revolution Alexandre Sabès Pétion ( French pronunciation: [alɛksɑ̃dʁ sabɛs petjɔ̃] ; 2 April 1770 – 29 March 1818) was the first president of the Republic of Haiti from 1807 until his death in 1818.
The Haitian Revolution (French: Révolution haïtienne [ʁevɔlysjɔ̃ a.isjɛn] or Guerre de l'indépendance; Haitian Creole: Lagè d Lendependans) was a successful insurrection by self-liberated slaves against French colonial rule in Saint-Domingue, now the sovereign state of Haiti. [2]
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 ...
François Capois (or François Cappoix; 1766 – October 8, 1806, nicknamed Capois-La-Mort, also Cappoix-la-Mort, meaning "Capois-Death") was a Haitian officer in the Haitian Revolution (1791–1794) for independence from France. He was born in Port-de-Paix, Saint-Domingue on the island of Hispaniola, on the plantation of Laveaux/Lapointe.
Haitian-Dominican Wars; Republic of Haiti (1859–1957) United States occupation of Haiti; Duvalier dynasty (1957–1986) Anti-Duvalier protest movement: Republic of Haiti (1986–present) 1991 Haitian coup d'état; Operation Uphold Democracy; 2004 Haitian coup d'état; 2010 Haiti earthquake; United Nations Stabilisation Mission in Haiti ...
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.
François-Dominique Toussaint Louverture (French: [fʁɑ̃swa dɔminik tusɛ̃ luvɛʁtyʁ], English: / ˌ l uː v ər ˈ tj ʊər /) [2] also known as Toussaint L'Ouverture or Toussaint Bréda (20 May 1743 – 7 April 1803), was a Haitian general and the most prominent leader of the Haitian Revolution.
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).