Natives of Haiti! My happy fate was to be one day the sentinel who would ... Done at the headquarters of Gonaives, the first day of January 1804, the first year of independence. Today, January 1st ...
On January 1, 1804, Dessalines proclaimed himself ruler of the new nation, which was called Haiti, a "higher place." ...
Most times, you’ll find Naomi Osaka on the tennis court, racket in hand, delivering powerful shots. But every now and then, ...
He called upon Congress to abolish trade between the United States and what after 1804 was the independent country of Haiti. He argued that France believed it still owned the island. In short ...
It apparently arrived there after a stop in Jamaica. Haiti declared its independence from France on Jan. 1, 1804. The British, then at war with France, used Haiti's independence as leverage to jockey ...
This is not the first time that talk has turned to sending foreign troops to Haiti. Since their hard-fought independence from France in 1804, the Haitian people have seen their country’s ...
Tuscaloosa: University Alabama Press, 2011. Pp. xii, 444 456. Illus., maps, tables, notes., biblio, index. $45.00. ISBN: 0817317325. Haitian specialist Prof. Girard ...
Chicago Founder and Haitian Revolutionary Jean Baptiste Point du Sable Chicago Founder Jean Baptiste Point du Sable ...