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Portrait of the Comte de Vaudreuil by François-Hubert Drouais, 1758.He is depicted pointing to his native Saint-Domingue on the map.. The Comte de Vaudreuil was born in Saint-Domingue, West Indies, the son of Joseph de Rigaud (1706–1764), Marquis de Vaudreuil, the French governor of the island, and his aristocratic white Creole wife, Françoise Guiot de la Mirande.
In 1659, half of the Caribbean island of Hispaniola, became the French colony Saint-Domingue, during the time of the Atlantic slave trade [1] Early attempts were made by slaves in order to recover their freedom, among them can be named the uprising in Saint-Domingue made by Padrejean in 1676, and the uprising of François Mackandal in 1757 [ 2 ]
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.
Map indicating the locations of the two forts French forts, 1753 and 1754 A 1755 map clearly showing the location of Fort Duquesne at the upper edge of the map. Model of Fort Duquesne Point State Park in Downtown Pittsburgh, where bricks mark the outline of the former site of Fort Duquesne. These bricks have since been replaced by granite slabs ...
Vincent Ogé (c. 1757 – 6 February 1791) was a Creole [1] revolutionary, merchant, military officer and goldsmith who had a leading role in a failed uprising against French colonial rule in the colony of Saint-Domingue in 1790.
Since 1659, Saint-Domingue (now the Republic of Haiti), was a French colony, recognized by Spain on September 20, 1697. From September 20, 1793, to October 1798 parts of the island were under British occupation. [1]
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August – France decrees all the slaves on Saint-Domingue to be free. August 1–November 9 – The yellow fever epidemic of 1793 hits Philadelphia, Pennsylvania; 5,000 die. August 10 – French Revolution – Feast of Unity Crowds in Paris burn monarchist emblems. The Louvre in Paris opens to the public as an art museum.