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Haitian Revolution: Quick Facts

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Facts

Date 1791 - 1804
Location Haiti
Participants France • Haiti • United Kingdom
Context French Revolution

Photos

Engraving depicting Haitians and French troops fighting with rifles and bayonets during the Haitian Revolution in 1803, with smoke and chaos in the background.
Toussaint Louverture stands in a military uniform with a feathered hat, holding a document and sword, with soldiers and a landscape in the background.
Engraving of Emperor Jean-Jacques Dessalines of Haiti in a blue military uniform with gold trim, shown from the waist up in an oval frame above a name plaque.
Pétion, Alexandre Sabès
Ruins of the Sans-Souci Palace in Milot, Haiti, show a large, partially collapsed stone structure with arched windows and staircases, surrounded by greenery.
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Key People

Toussaint Louverture stands in a military uniform with a feathered hat, holding a document and sword, with soldiers and a landscape in the background.
Toussaint Louverture
Haitian leader
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Henry Christophe
ruler of Haiti
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Jean-Jacques Dessalines
emperor of Haiti
Pétion, Alexandre Sabès
Alexandre Sabès Pétion
president of Haiti
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Charles Leclerc
French general

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