📜 The Haitian Revolution: The War of Knives - With the end of slavery in French colonies and the withdrawal of Spanish troops from the conflict, it looked like everything was going Toussaint L ...

The French Revolution of 1789 not only propelled all of Europe into a war, but also touched off slave ... which was called Haiti, a "higher place." ...

Girard (McNeese State) gives us perhaps the best comprehensive treatment of that nation’s War for Independence ... military aspects of the Haitian struggle against French efforts to re-establish ...

“It is then that we will wage a war of extermination ... kingdom would once again consent to French domination? Adapted from The First and Last King of Haiti: The Rise and Fall of Henry ...

The document, written in the first-person, speaks directly to the Haitian people, asking them to make a vow to live free or die. The incendiary text, produced after a period of brutal war against the ...