Haitian Declares Independence

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French fleet of more than 50 ships and 30,000 troops sent by Napoleon Bonaparte arrives to re-assert French control

French control established and truces agreed with leading black generals. French re-establish slavery in Martinique and Guadeloupe.

Louverture also made it clear that he believed that all that had led up to and befallen him since his arrest in June was due to the colour of his skin. ‘Without a doubt I owe this treatment to my colour’, he wrote. ‘But my colour, my colour, has it ever prevented me from serving my Country with diligence and devotion?’:

On the morning of 7 April 1803, Toussaint Louverture, leader of the slave insurrection in French Saint-Domingue that led to the Haitian Revolution, was found dead by a guard in the prison in France where he had been held captive for nearly eight months.

October– November 1802 Renewed revolt against French troops by black generals Dessalines and Christophe

The Battle of Vertières was the last major battle of the Haitian Revolution, and the final part of the Haitian Revolution under Jean Jacques Dessalines. It was fought on 18 November 1803 between Haitian indigenous army, and Napoleon's French expeditionary forces, who were committed to regaining control of the island.

1 January 1804 Haitian independence declared, with Dessalines as governor for life. He later proclaims himself emperor