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Prince Mainville-Joseph Soulouque, Duke of Fort-Royal (21 August 1830 – 7 January 1875), was a Haitian prince and soldier. [1] Nephew of Emperor Faustin I . He was prince of the blood under the Second Empire and marshal of the imperial army.
Fort-Liberté (French pronunciation: [fɔʁ libɛʁte]; Haitian Creole: Fòlibète) is a commune and administrative capital of the Nord-Est department of Haiti. It is close to the border of the Dominican Republic and is one of the oldest cities in the country. Haiti's independence was proclaimed here on November 29, 1803. [2] [3]
Nord-Est (French, pronounced ⓘ) or Nodès (Haitian Creole; both meaning "North East") is one of the ten departments of Haiti, located in northern Haiti. It has an area of 1,623 km 2 (627 sq mi), making it the smallest of all the departments. It had an estimated population of 393,967 as of 2015. [3] Its capital is Fort-Liberté.
Fort Royal (or Fort Royale) may refer to: Fort Royal, a fortification and former prison on Île Sainte-Marguerite; Fort-de-France, the capital of Martinique; Fort Saint Louis (Martinique), a fortification at Fort-de-France; Fort Royal (Newfoundland), a fortification in Canada; Fort-Liberté, a fortification in Haiti; Fort Frederiksborg, a fort ...
View of the north side of the island, including the Fort Royal and the village of Sainte-Marguerite. Location of Sainte-Marguerite within Lérins islands. The Île Sainte-Marguerite (pronounced [il sɛ̃t maʁɡ(ə)ʁit]) is the largest of the Lérins Islands, about half a mile off shore from the French Riviera town of Cannes.
Sans Souci. Castle of King Christopher of Haiti, lithograph by Gottfried Küstner (1800–1864) from a work by Carl Ritter, published in 1836. Sans-Souci Palace in 1907. The Palace of Sans-Souci, or Sans-Souci Palace (French: Palais Sans Souci [palɛ sɑ̃ susi]), was the principal royal residence of Henry I, King of Haiti, better known as ...
Some 130 miles north of Haiti’s capital of Port-au-Prince the private ... Royal Caribbean ships are still calling into Labadee — the cruise company’s day-use property located on a peninsula ...
Early colonial defense works constructed before the 19th century were primarily small coastal batteries built of stone having anywhere from two to ten guns. Some of these early forts and batteries are the oldest standing masonry forts in the new world. Later forts constructed by the royal engineers were much larger and more complex. Fort St ...