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Toussaint L’ Overtur

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Toussaint L’ OvertureAbout Him
how it all started August 1791, thousands of slaves in North Saint-Domingue (Haiti) rebelled. Ouverture was not among them(been freed 1777)
what did he do w/t rebel slaves Soon joined rebel slaves. Gathered a following and formed his own band of guerrillas. His army of former slaves took over French plantations in Haiti.
who's side? Toussaint’s army allied w/t forces from Hispaniola’s Spanish colony when France and Spain went to war with each other. In 1793, British forces landed on the island to support the Spanish.
WHat did french do? The French were now fighting against three armies: the Spanish, the British, and Toussaint’s. They tried to get the island’s black population on their side. French leaders said that any slave who joined them would be freed.
what did Toussaint L’ Overture think At first, Toussaint considered this a ruse. But then he learned that France had officially abolished slavery.
what did he do? Touissant & his army joined with the French to defeat the Spanish in 1795.Toussaint drove out the British and began to trade with both Britain and the United States.
what happned in jan. 1801? In January 1801, along with Dessalines and another lieutenant, Henry Christophe, he led a large army into a Spanish colony to free slaves there. Hardly a shot was fired.
jan. 1801 In July, Toussaint became “governor general for life.”
February 1802 large French force landed at Haiti, gaining control of island. French could not to lose Saint-Domingue’s huge sugar profits to free trade.Weeks of fierce fighting followed French invasion. Cap-Francais was burned. Christophe & Dessalines surrendered.
Angered by Toussaint’s arrest and believing that the French wanted to re-enslave them, Christophe and Dessalines took up arms again. In May 1802, Toussaint also surrendered and retired to a farm near Gonaives. However, on June 7, French arrested him and sent him to France.
Christophe&Dessalines VS French Their fight to oust the French was still raging when Toussaint died. Finally, in November 1803, Christophe and Dessalines defeated the last of French forces.
freedom at last After Dessaline’s New Year’s independence declaration of 1804, Christophe set about rebuilding Cap-Francais, which was renamed Cap-Haitien. Saint-Domingue was changed to Haiti. Haiti was the first country in Latin America to break free of imperialism.
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