The Haitian Revolution

[tpols]

Raynal's prediction came true on the night of 21 August 1791, when the slaves of Saint-Domingue rose in revolt; thousands of slaves attended a secret vodou ceremony as a tropical storm came in—the lighting and the thunder was taken as auspicious omens—and later that night, the slaves began to kill their masters and plunged the colony into civil war.The signal to begin the revolt was given by Dutty Boukman, a high priest of vodou and leader of the Maroon slaves, and Cecile Fatiman during a religious ceremony at Bois Caïman on the night of 14 August. Within the next ten days, slaves had taken control of the entire Northern Province in an unprecedented slave revolt. Whites kept control of only a few isolated, fortified camps. The slaves sought revenge on their masters through "pillage, rape, torture, mutilation, and death".The long years of oppression by the planters had left many blacks with a hatred of all whites, and the revolt was marked by extreme violence from the very start. The masters and mistresses were dragged from their beds to be killed, and the heads of French children were placed on spikes that were carried at the front of the rebel columns. In the south, beginning in September, thirteen thousand slaves and rebels led by Romaine-la-Prophétesse, based in Trou Coffy, took supplies from and burned plantations and freed slaves and occupied (and burned) the area's two major cities, Léogâne and Jacmel.

link (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Haitian_Revolution)

You can read the whole build up too... French aristocrats must've been huge *****... there own people did the same thing to them in France.

[Patrick Chewing]

And look at those ****ers now. Eating dirt cakes.

[tpols]

And look at those ****ers now. Eating dirt cakes.

:roll:

to be fair tio after they killed every white person on the island, they also burned down all the plantations. This island was filthy rich exporting the majority of the worlds sugar. Why not...? i dont know keep them up, work them yourselves and make that money? No? just burn everything and starve.

:facepalm

and theyre still like that to this day.

[msbutthurt]

Too bad their protests from a while back failed. Tons of people were protesting every weekend to have Rothschild puppet Macron removed as their leader and Rothschild banks/federal reserve kicked out of France.

[tpols]

Damn Napolean ran up in that bitch.


Napoleon invades Haiti
The French arrived on 2 February 1802 at Le Cap with the Haitian commander Henri Christophe being ordered by Leclerc to turn over the city to the French.[93] When Christophe refused, the French assaulted Le Cap and the Haitians set the city afire rather than surrender it.[93] Leclerc sent Toussaint letters promising him: "Have no worries about your personal fortune. It will be safeguarded for you, since it has been only too well earned by your own efforts. Do not worry about the liberty of your fellow citizens".[94] When Toussaint still failed to appear at Le Cap, Leclerc issued a proclamation on 17 February 1802: "General Toussaint and General Christophe are outlawed; all citizens are ordered to hunt them down, and treat them as rebels against the French Republic".[95] Captain Marcus Rainsford, a British Army officer who visited Saint-Domingue observed the training of the Haitian Army, writing: "At a whistle, a whole brigade ran three or four hundred yards, and then, separating, threw themselves flat on the ground, changing to their backs and sides, and all the time keeping up a strong fire until recalled…This movement is executed with such facility and precision as totally to prevent cavalry from charging them in bushy and hilly country".[95]

[CelticBaller]

That was the dumbest thing to do. They just ended up pissing of the french and had the french pull up on them with dozens of battleships.


Diplomacy always beats slaughter

[tpols]

That was the dumbest thing to do. They just ended up pissing of the french and had the french pull up on them with dozens of battleships.


Diplomacy always beats slaughter

there was no diplomacy being a slave. most died after one year to yellow fever so they worked them to the bone basically like a concentration camp.


Toussaint outlined his plans for defeating the French: "Do not forget, while waiting for the rainy reason which will rid us of our foes, that we have no other resource than destruction and fire. Bear in mind that the soil bathed with our sweat must not furnish our enemies with the smallest sustenance. Tear up the roads with shot; throw corpses and horses into all the foundations, burn and annihilate everything in order that those who have come to reduce us to slavery may have before their eyes the image of the hell which they deserve".

thats the haitian leader who the French tried to pay off to stand down.


The French had been expecting the Haitians to happily go back to being their slaves, as they believed it was natural for blacks to be the slaves of whites, and were stunned to learn how much the Haitians hated them for wanting to reduce them back to a life in chains.[95] A visibly shocked General Pamphile de Lacroix after seeing the ruins of Léogâne wrote: "They heaped up bodies" which "still had their attitudes; they were bent over, their hands outstretched and beseeching; the ice of death had not effaced the look on their faces".[95]

[Horatio33]

That was the dumbest thing to do. They just ended up pissing of the french and had the french pull up on them with dozens of battleships.


Diplomacy always beats slaughter

Worked out well in the World Wars

[CelticBaller]

there was no diplomacy being a slave. most died after one year to yellow fever so they worked them to the bone basically like a concentration camp.



thats the haitian leader who the French tried to pay off to stand down.

There was nothing wrong in fighting for their right, the fact of the matter was that they straight up slaughter anyone who wasn't black. It not only destroyed any kind of relationship and negotiations they could've done with the french, they also scared off other white countries and made blacks look like savages.

Spain for example could've gained alot from helping Haiti at the time, they had better relations with their slaves and could get rid off the french who basically took control of one side of the island they once owned. Instead the french basically forced them sign on a huge contract that sunk them in debt for their independence

[MrFonzworth]

Who the hell sits around talking about history.