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Saint-Domingue became known as the "Pearl of the Antilles" – one of the richest colonies in the world in the 18th-century French empire. It was the greatest jewel in imperial France's mercantile crown. By the 1780s, Saint-Domingue produced about 40 percent of all the sugar and 60 percent of all the coffee consumed in Europe.
So please would someone add to the top a simple guide to the correct pronunciation of the name "Saint-Domingue" ? Thanks. Darkman101 01:32, 4 March 2011 (UTC) It is true that Saint-Domingue "could be" pronounced "San Domingyou," but that would be an incorrect pronunciation. Sort of like mispronouncing the word "burlesque" as "burley-cue."
In 1975 Wayne and Elena Leman, of Wycliffe Bible Translators, started a translation of the Bible from the original languages into colloquial Cheyenne. (Petter's translation is in a more formal, literal style). Their translation has the complete text for Luke, Philippians, 1 Peter, 1 John as well as portions from other books.
Rochambeau in Saint-Domingue. He served in the American Revolutionary War as an aide-de-camp to his father, spending the winter of 1781–1782 in quarters at Williamsburg, Virginia. In the 1790s, he participated in an unsuccessful campaign to re-establish French authority in Martinique and Saint-Domingue.
Castelline, a speaker of Haitian Creole, recorded in the United States. Haitian Creole (/ ˈ h eɪ ʃ ən ˈ k r iː oʊ l /; Haitian Creole: kreyòl ayisyen, [kɣejɔl ajisjɛ̃]; [6] [7] French: créole haïtien, [kʁe.ɔl a.i.sjɛ̃]), or simply Creole (Haitian Creole: kreyòl), is a French-based creole language spoken by 10 to 12 million people worldwide, and is one of the two official ...
The Original Aramaic Bible in Plain English (2010) by David Bauscher, Father Nicholas King's translation of the Greek Bible into English. The New Testament: A Translation (2017, 2023) by David Bentley Hart; The Hebrew Bible: A Translation with Commentary (2018) by Robert Alter; Others, such as N. T. Wright, have translated portions of the Bible.
A witness account titled 'The revolution of Saint-Domingue, containing everything that occurred in the French colony from the start of the revolution until the author's departure for France on 8 September 1792' (title translated to English) is written by an anonymous author, who is only identified by the fact that he is a white male. He details ...
Toussaint Louverture, general of the Armée Indigène. The Indigenous Army (French: Armée Indigène; Haitian Creole: Lame Endijèn), also known as the Army of Saint-Domingue (French: Armée de Saint-Domingue) was the name bestowed to the coalition of anti-slavery men and women who fought in the Haitian Revolution in Saint-Domingue (now Haiti).