the first year of independence. Today, January 1st 1804, the general in chief of the native army, accompanied by the generals of the army, assembled in order to take measures that will insure the good ...

Once he lost the colony, Louisiana became far less valuable to him. When the Haitian Declaration of Independence was first published in American newspapers in the spring of 1804 -- quite widely, as ...

recognized this and warns the Haitian peoples in their Declaration of Independence to remain united and vigilant and protect their hard fought and hard won victory against a “barbarous people ...

On Saint Domingue, the free people of color began the chain of rebellion when French planters would not grant them citizenship as decreed by the National Assembly of France in its "Declaration of ...

A: Early in the 19th century, the Haitian Revolution gets talked ... 1826 was the fiftieth anniversary of the Declaration of Independence, 25 years after Tobias Lear had been in Saint Domingue.