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[ad_1] Henry Christophe who was born Oct. 6, 1767 in Grenada went from being a 14 year old drummer boy at the 1779 battle of Savannah in the American Revolution to being a leader in the war of Haitian independence…
[ad_1] “After years of negotiations, a concordat between the Catholic Church and the Haitian government was signed on 28 March 1860. In December 1860, Monseigneur Monetti arrived as the Church’s delegate. – The concordat provided that the Catholic Church would…
[ad_1] Adbaraya Toya aka Victoria Montou was born in the Dahomey Kingdom (Bénin), she ranked high amongst the Amazons known as N’Nonmiton filled with the fiercest warriors. She was a midwife, a warrior and a healer. She raised Haiti’s founding…
[ad_1] It was the royal residence of King Henri I and Queen Marie-Louise and their two daughters. It was the most important of nine palaces built by the king, as well as fifteen châteaux, numerous forts, and sprawling summer homes…
[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…