Natives of Haiti! My happy fate was to be one day the sentinel ... Done at the headquarters of Gonaives, the first day of January 1804, the first year of independence. Today, January 1st 1804, the ...

It apparently arrived there after a stop in Jamaica. Haiti declared its independence from France on Jan. 1, 1804. The British, then at war with France, used Haiti's independence as leverage to jockey ...

The French Revolution of 1789 not ... On January 1, 1804, Dessalines proclaimed himself ruler of the new nation, which was called Haiti, a "higher place." ...

January 1, 1804 was the day Haiti's first president ... "We are marking the 221st anniversary of our Haitian independence," said Cyndee Montes Newman, Founder and Executive Director of Daughters ...

It wasn't that the revolution in Saint Domingue taught ... trade between the United States and what after 1804 was the independent country of Haiti. He argued that France believed it still owned ...

Another is his role in the fight for U.S. independence as a member of the ... who on Jan. 1, 1804, declared Haiti free from French rule, “Christophe didn’t sell out the people to foreign ...

biblio, index. $45.00. ISBN: 0817317325. Haitian specialist Prof. Girard (McNeese State) gives us perhaps the best comprehensive treatment of that nation’s War for Independence. Despite the rather ...

An image showing the Saint-Domingue Revolution of 1791. The rebellion against French control was ultimately succession and led to the creation of the nation of Haiti in 1804. On plantations ...