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The Saint-Domingue expedition was a large French military invasion sent by Napoleon Bonaparte, then First Consul, under his brother-in-law Charles Victor Emmanuel Leclerc in an attempt to regain French control of the Caribbean colony of Saint-Domingue on the island of Hispaniola, and curtail the measures of independence and abolition of slaves taken by the former slave Toussaint Louverture.
Haïti Observateur (French pronunciation: [aiti ɔpsɛʁvatœʁ]) is a US-based weekly newspaper founded in 1971 [2] that focuses on news concerning Haiti. It is published in Brooklyn, New York , and has large distribution networks in other locations in the United States, as well in Canada and France.
Moyse (Moïse, Moise) Hyacinthe L'Ouverture (1773 – 1801) was a military leader in Saint-Domingue during the Haitian Revolution.Originally allied with Toussaint L'Ouverture, Moyse grew disillusioned with the minimal labor reform and land distribution for black former slaves under the L'Ouverture administration and lead a rebellion against Toussaint in 1801.
On April 20, 1867, the newspaper began re- publishing under its current title: Le Moniteur, journal officiel de la république d'Haiti. [ 6 ] A digitized version of over 10,000 past editions of Le Moniteur was released in 2011, and the Act Of Indepence which was taken to Postdam, Germany for educational was sold to an auctioneer in Kew, England ...
Charles Leclerc was born on 17 March 1772 in Pontoise, Île-de-France.In 1791, he volunteered to join the French Royal Army, serving as a second lieutenant in the 12th Regiment of Chasseurs à Cheval before becoming an aide-de-camp to Jean François Cornu de La Poype.
The Archives Nationales d'Haiti (ANH) were created by a Presidential Decree on August 20, 1860. The Decree occurred under the government of Fabre Geffrard (1859-1867). The Decree established the "General Archives of Finances" which were the Republic of Haiti's first formal and official archives. Although the government had at an early time ...
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The Battle of Crête-à-Pierrot was a major battle of the Haitian Revolution that took place from 4 March until 24 March 1802.. The battle took place at the Crête-à-Pierrot fort ("Little Peter's Crest;" in Haitian Creole Lakrèt-a-Pyewo), east of Saint-Marc on the valley of the Artibonite River.