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Slaves attack caucasians by Cape Francois
Maroons and slaves assaulted on the whites on the evening of August 21st because Oge and Chavannes had tried to get the General Assembly to persuade that citizenship included the free persons of color but Oge and Chavannes forces were badly beaten -
Free people of color were given citizenship
In September 23 the decree was repealed. The Assembly ordered commissioners to go to Saint-Domingue with 18,000 troops and restore control. In December, 1791, they arrived in Saint-Domingue and their position was weaker because they had 6,000 troops -
Blacks revolt to improve equality
Blacks hear talk of equality and independence and revolt and try to improve their independence -
Whites kill hundreds of blacks
Whites Panicked about the revolution, and no one would help so they end up killing hundreds of blacks in attempt to stop the revolution. -
Louis XVI gets executed
France becomes a republic, and other countries take this as an oppurtunity to inavde haitian -
Toussaint Louverture helps Spain
A rebel leader Toussaint Louverture helps Spain get rid of Britain in exchange for peace and equality. -
Toussaint and his army defeated
Toussaint sent his army to the eastern half of the island and while he was there he assembled a whole island comitee and made himself govener in chief for the rest of his life in 1801. Napoleon sent a many troops to Saint-Domingue who were being led by Charles Leclerc in 1802. Toussaint and his army fought the French troops but Toussaint and his army were defeated and he resigned from governership. -
Declaring independence of Haiti
n 1803 France had surrendered on third of the island to the Haitians and in 1804 Dessalines who led the indigenous army, and his genIerals had proclaimed that Saint-Domingue was now an independent nation and was now called Haiti. -
Dessalines, became Haiti’s first head of state
An autocrat who ruled mainly through force, Dessalines declared himself Emperor Jacques I. His despotic rule, which the mulatto elite resisted, ended with his assassination in October 1806. -
Christophe and Pétion would jointly govern the country
It lasted from 1805 to 1820 -
Dessalines is assassinated
His despotic rule, which the mulatto elite resisted, ended with his assassination in October 1806. -
Jean-Pierre Boyer,invaded the north and reunited the country
Boyer vigorously defended Haitian sovereignty through a combination of military confrontation and negotiation with the European powers -
Boyer invaded Santo Domingo
he expelled the Spanish and imposing a 22-year occupation of the neighboring nation -
France recognized the Republic of Haiti and restored trade relations
Toward the end of his tenure, Boyer negotiated a payment to France of 150 million francs (later reduced to 60 million francs) as indemnity for the loss of the colony -
Declare an independent Dominican Republic.
a band of Dominican nationalists took the opportunity of Boyer’s ouster to attack the Haitian garrison in Santo Doming
