Haitian revolutionary forces

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The Haitian revolutionary forces were the insurgent armies of formerly enslaved and free Black people who fought the French colonial regime and ultimately secured Haiti’s independence in the late 18th and early 19th centuries.

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Predicate Object
instanceOf insurgent movement
military organization
revolutionary army
alliedWith French Republican commissioners (against royalists and planters)
Spanish forces in Santo Domingo (early phase)
country Haiti
Saint-Domingue
endTime 1804
hasEthnicComposition formerly enslaved Africans
free Black people
gens de couleur libres
maroons
hasLeader Alexandre Pétion
André Rigaud
Capois-La-Mort
Dutty Boukman
Georges Biassou
Henri Christophe
Jean-François Papillon
Jean-Jacques Dessalines
Mackandal (symbolic precursor)
linked to: Mackandal

Sanité Bélair
Toussaint Louverture
ideology Black emancipation
anti-colonialism
anti-slavery
influenced abolitionist movements in the Atlantic world
slave resistance in the Americas
influencedBy French Revolution ideals
Vodou religious practices
languageUsed French
Haitian Kreyòl
linked to: Haitian Creole
notableBattle Battle of Vertières
Siege of Crête-à-Pierrot
opposedTo French colonial regime in Saint-Domingue
French expeditionary forces of Napoleon Bonaparte
French slave-owning planters
partOf Haitian Revolution
result abolition of slavery in Saint-Domingue
establishment of the first Black republic
first successful large-scale slave revolt in modern history
independence of Haiti
significantEvent 1791 slave uprising in the Northern Plain
Battle of Vertières
Bwa Kayiman ceremony
War of Knives
linked to: War of the Knives

expulsion of French forces from Saint-Domingue
startTime 1791
usedTactic alliances with foreign powers
guerrilla warfare
scorched earth strategy

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Emperor Jacques I militaryBranch Haitian revolutionary forces
Conference of American Armies hasMember Army of Haiti
linked to: Haitian revolutionary forces
Siege of Cap-Français hasParticipant revolutionary forces in Saint-Domingue
linked to: Haitian revolutionary forces
Napoleonic expedition to Saint-Domingue belligerent Haitian revolutionary army
linked to: Haitian revolutionary forces