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    Saint-Domingue Creoles (French: Créoles de Saint-Domingue, Haitian Creole: Moun Kreyòl Sen Domeng) or simply Creoles, were the people who lived in the...
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    Saint-Domingue (French pronunciation: [sɛ̃.dɔ.mɛ̃ɡ]) was a French colony in the western portion of the Caribbean island of Hispaniola, in the area of modern-day...
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    have stayed in Saint-Domingue where he would have met with Toussaint Louverture. However, the stay of Saint-Georges in Saint-Domingue, after his imprisonment...
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  • White Haitians (category People from Saint-Domingue)
    approximately 20,000 whites around the Haitian Revolution, mainly French, in Saint-Domingue. They were divided into two main groups: The Planters and Petit Blancs...
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    Assembly of Saint-Marc (Assemblée de Saint-Marc) or the “Faction des 85”, were the elected members of the self-proclaimed Assembly in Saint-Domingue (now Haiti)...
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    return, causing them to flee or, when captured, be deported as slaves to Saint-Domingue (later Haiti). In the colonial period, men tended to marry after becoming...
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    town was first settled in 1716, then located in the French colony of Saint-Domingue. The town is located on flat land close to the sea but its edges extend...
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  • west of Hispaniola and called it Saint-Domingue. Prior to the Seven Years' War (1756–1763), the economy of Saint-Domingue gradually expanded, with sugar...
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    victory, after which they returned to the Caribbean. On arrival in Saint-Domingue in November 1781, the admiral was notified to proceed with a plan for...
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    chosen, in order to better control the French portion of Hispaniola (Saint-Domingue). For a time, Petit-Goâve and Léogâne vied for this honor, but both...
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    19th century, following France's loss of its largest sugar colonies of Saint-Domingue (Haiti) and the Isle of France (Mauritius) as a result of the French...
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  • Navy in 1775, rising to lieutenant by 1790. In 1791, he was sent to Saint-Domingue, where he captained a schooner and a brig, and was tasked with secret...
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  • A l'Artibonite A l'Ozama Hymne à l'Indépendance (1825) Sur la Ville de Saint-Domingue La Mort de Christophe Schutt-Ainé, Patricia (1994). Haiti: A Basic...
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    the colonial period, serving as the capital of the French Colony of Saint-Domingue from the city's formal foundation in 1711 until 1770 when the capital...
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    Ville du Havre (French: [vil dy avʁ]) was a French iron steamship that operated round trips between the northern coast of France and New York City. Launched...
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    repelled the Raids on Boulogne organised by Nelson. He then served in the Saint-Domingue expedition, which irrevocably compromised his health. After his return...
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    control of large areas of Guadeloupe and Saint-Domingue, including Toussaint Louverture in the north of Saint-Domingue, and André Rigaud in the south. Historian...
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    2016. Description de Saint-Domingue, M.L.E. Moreau de Saint-Méry, vol. 2, p. 528, Philadelphia: 1798. Description de Saint-Domingue, p. 528. "Les Affiches...
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    Gabriel de Clieu (category Grand Crosses of the Order of Saint Louis)
    already growing in the Western Hemisphere: in the French colony of Saint-Domingue since 1715 and in the Dutch colony of Surinam since 1718. De Clieu died...
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    when the western portion was ceded to France and subsequently renamed Saint-Domingue. French colonists established sugarcane plantations, worked by enslaved...
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    the culture of the French colonialists who controlled the colony of Saint-Domingue, most notably Roman Catholicism but also Freemasonry. Many Vodouists...
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    joined by immigrants from the French West Indies, who left after Haiti/St. Domingue became independent in a slave revolution. Most of the new settlers were...
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    transported aboard a French supply ship from the French colony of Saint-Domingue in the Caribbean, where they had first been held. The population of...
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    to the Treaty on Ryswick (1697). The French called their new colony Saint-Domingue. And they began transforming the settlement into a large sugar plantation...
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    Faustin Soulouque (category People from Saint-Domingue)
    15 August 1782 in Petit-Goâve, a small town in the French colony of Saint-Domingue, to a Haitian mother. Soulouque's mother, Marie-Catherine Soulouque...
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  • earned the Order of Saint Louis, awarded to him in 1771. In 1773, he captained Éclair. In 1774, Chautard married Albertine Thierry de Ville d'Avray. In 1777...
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    was officially abolished in St Domingue. Robespierre criticised the actions of the former governor of Saint-Domingue Sonthonax and Étienne Polverel,...
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  • physique, civile, politique et historique de la partie française de l'Ile Saint Domingue, quoted in Claude Prepetit, "Tremblements de terre en Haïti, mythe ou...
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    Médéric Louis Élie Moreau de Saint-Méry, a member of the French Parliament best known for his publications on Saint-Domingue, referred to "la Navasse" as...
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    cane, whose demand in France increased, due to France's recent loss of Saint-Domingue, and soon of the Île-de-France (Mauritius). Because of its growth cycle...
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