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[ad_1] The Battle of Ravine-à-Couleuvres (Haitian Creole: Batay Ravin Koulèv), also known as the Battle of Snake Gully, was a major battle of the Haitian Revolution held on 23 February 1802. A French division under General Donatien de Rochambeau was…
[ad_1] Pierrot became president at the age of 84. He refused to live in Port-au-Prince ( Port-aux-Crimes) and designated Cap-Haitien the capital of Haiti. They referred to Port-au-Prince as “Port of Crimes”, which was the capital of Haiti, because of…
[ad_1] Before being the 5th president of Haiti, Jean-Louis Michel Pierrot, fought under the command of Henri Christophe who crowned himself president for life of the State of Haiti (1807-1811), then had himself crowned King Henry I by the archbishop…
[ad_1] Louis Michel Pierrot was the husband of the mambo, vodou priestess, Cécile Fatima who led the Bois Caiman vodou ceremonies with the priest Dutty Boukman in 1791, the staring point of the Haitian Revolution. According to Haitian researcher Rodney…
[ad_1] Louis Michel Pierrot became president of Haiti on April 16, 1845. During the first Haitian Kingdom, Henry I promoted Pierrot to the rank of Lieutenant General in the Army and granted him the hereditary title of Prince. As President…
[ad_1] The North-South Civil War in Haiti: Alexandre Pétion and Henri Christophe In 1806, Christophe and the Haitian general Alexandre Pétion overthrew Jean Jacques Dessalines. Subsequently, a short civil war broke out between Christophe and Pétion. By February 1807, Haiti…
[ad_1] Following a power struggle with Pétion and his supporters in the South, Christophe retreated with his followers to the Plaine-du-Nord of Haiti, the stronghold of former slaves, and created a separate government there. Christophe suspected he was also at…
[ad_1] Charles-Victor-Emmanuel Leclerc, was a French general, brother-in-law of Napoleon, who attempted to suppress the Haitian revolt led by the former slave Toussaint Louverture. – Leclerc joined the army in 1792 and distinguished himself at the siege of Toulon. It…
[ad_1] After Dessalines was assassinated, Christophe retreated to the Plaine-du-Nord and created a separate government. On February 17th 1807, he was elected President of the State of Haiti, as he named that area. Alexandre Pétion was elected president in the…
[ad_1] The French General Leclerc was sent to North of Saint-Domingue on the orders of Napoléon Bonaparte to re-establish slavery. He arrives with his troups in ”Le Cap“ on February 2nd, 1802. General Leclerc addressed the people of the colony…