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[ad_1] Here’s a portrait of Henri Christophe King of the Kingdom of Haiti and his family. A portrait of Henri Ferdinand Christophe and his wife Marie-Louise Coidavid Christophe and their daughter circa 1811. (source: solarey) – Sa se yon pòtrè…
[ad_1] On 26 March 1811, Christophe created a kingdom in the North and was later proclaimed Henry I, King of the Kingdom of Haïti. He also created a nobility and named his legitimate son Jacques-Victor Henry as prince and heir.…
[ad_1] Lamartiniere, the second in command after Jean-Jacques Dessalines, at the battle of La Crete-a-Pierrot: Lamartinière looked in vain for Dessalines to come forth from the fortress with relief forces but only an old man, pretending to be an idiot,…
[ad_1] On 12 March, the French forces attempted to gain control of the fort but failed; Jean Boudet’s French forces suffered losses of 480, and Dessalines’s forces suffered losses of 200-300. Another attempt was made on 22 March which led…
[ad_1] The Battle of Crête-à-Pierrot was a major battle of the Haitian Revolution. The battle took place at the Crête-à-Pierrot fort , east of Saint-Marc on the valley of the Artibonite River. It took place from March 4 to March…
[ad_1] She was known as Marie-Jeanne and served in the Haitian army in the Battle of Crête-à-Pierrot during the Haitian Revolution. The wife of a young mulatto soldier, Louis Daure Lamartinière, she fought in male uniform. Thomas Madiou said: “she…
[ad_1] By the time he was 69 years old, Hyppolite had not been in good health for some time. Nonetheless, he refused to rest as he had been advised to do. Against the advice of his doctor he decided to…
[ad_1] Marie Sainte Dédée Bazile (fl. 1806), aka Défilée and Défilée-La-Folle, is a figure of the Haitian Revolution. She is remembered for retrieving and burying the mutilated body of Emperor Jean-Jacques Dessalines after his assassination at Pont Larnage (now Pont Rouge)…
[ad_1] After the death of André Rigaud on September 18th 1811, who ruled the department from November 3rd 1810, for a limited time, Jérôme Maximilien Borgella succeeded him as President of the council of the Department of the South (21…
[ad_1] Jean-Nicolas Nissage Saget succeeded Sylvain Salnave as President of Haiti in 1869. Coming into power by coup, however, it is on March 19th, 1870 that the National Assembly elected General Nissage Saget as President of Haiti for a term…