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The French ruler decided to send numerous troops to Hispaniola ... which guaranteed citizenship to any Pole who wished to become a Haitian. Approximately 400 Polish soldiers decided to stay in the ...

Toussaint had since been taken captive, but rebel soldiers followed his orders forbidding them to retaliate against prisoners of war for the brutality of the French soldiers. However, when French ...

Port-au-Prince, Haiti (CNN)-- A French doctor's report suggests that ... a number of potential causes and points to the Nepalese soldiers as the most probable, said Vincenzo Pugliese, spokesman ...

The following year, after Patriot forces allied with the French, some 4,000 soldiers ... a corps of 545 Black and mixed-race soldiers from present-day Haiti, then the wealthiest colony in the ...