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  1. Há 1 dia · The description of Toussaint’s demise also shows Williams’s aim: “Toussaint was thrown into a cold, damp, horrible cell in the prison fortress of Joux, where on the 27 th April 1803, he was found dead—the prison authorities said by apoplexy, history says by murder.” 68 The remaining paragraphs, like earlier nineteenth-century narratives, highlighted Toussaint’s “nobleness of soul ...

  2. Há 3 dias · In the late 1790s Toussaint Louverture, a military leader and formerly enslaved person, gained control of several areas and earned the initial support of French agents. He gave nominal allegiance to France while pursuing his own political and military designs, which included negotiating with the British, and in May 1801 he had ...

  3. Há 2 dias · The Citadel (Citadelle Laferrière), a fortress built by Haitian ruler Henry Christophe in the early 19th century, stands atop one of the peaks overlooking the city of Cap-Haïtien and the narrow coastal plain.

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  4. Há 3 dias · This was best illustrated on 29 February 2024: Once-rival armed groups launched coordinated attacks against Port-au-Prince’s Toussaint Louverture airport and state institutions. The incursions eventually led to the resignation of transitional Prime Minister Ariel Henry, triggering a new political shift.

  5. Há 4 dias · Pierre Gustave Toutant-Beauregard (May 28, 1818 – February 20, 1893) was an American military officer known as being the Confederate General who started the American Civil War at the battle of Fort Sumter on April 12, 1861. Today, he is commonly referred to as P. G. T. Beauregard, but he rarely used his first name as an adult.

  6. Há 5 dias · Henry Box Brown (c. 1815 – June 15, 1897) was an enslaved man from Virginia who escaped to freedom at the age of 33 by arranging to have himself mailed in a wooden crate in 1849 to abolitionists in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania.

  7. Há 2 dias · Haiti - Politics, Economy, Society: Haiti instituted universal suffrage in 1950, but most of its elections have been marred by ballot tampering. Its constitution was approved by referendum in 1987 but not actually put into effect until 1995, during Jean-Bertrand Aristide’s presidency.