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Event war Americas

Haitian Revolution

1791 CE – 1804 CE

The only successful large-scale slave revolt in history. Enslaved Africans in Saint-Domingue overthrew French colonial rule, defeated expeditionary armies from three European empires, and founded…

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1791–1804 slave revolt in Hispanola

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Haitian Revolution

1791 CE – 1804 CE

The only successful large-scale slave revolt in history. Enslaved Africans in Saint-Domingue overthrew French colonial rule, defeated expeditionary armies from three European empires, and founded Haiti — the first independent Black republic and the second independent nation in the Americas.

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