Haitian Slave Revolt
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| Part of the Atlantic Revolutions, French Revolutionary Wars, and Napoleonic Wars. | |||||||||
 Battle at San Domingo, a painting by January Suchodolski, depicting a struggle between Polish troops in French service and the slave rebels and freed revolutionary soldiers |
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1791–1793 Ex-slaves French royalists Spain (from 1793)1793–1798 French royalists Great Britain Spain (until 1796)1798–1801  Louverture Loyalists1802–1804  Ex-slaves United Kingdom
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1791–1793 1798–1801 Rigaud Loyalists Spain1802–1804 French Republic Spain
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1791–1793 Dutty Boukman † Georges Biassou Vincent Ogé  André Rigaud1793–1798 Paul-Louis Dubuc Thomas Maitland Joaquín Moreno1798–1801 Toussaint Louverture1802–1804 Toussaint Louverture  Jean-Jacques Dessalines Henri Christophe Alexandre Pétion François Capois John Duckworth John Loring
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1791–1793 Viscount de Blanchelande Léger-Félicité Sonthonax1793–1798 Toussaint Louverture André Rigaud Alexandre Pétion1798–1801 André Rigaud1802–1804 Napoleon Bonaparte Charles Leclerc † Vicomte de Rochambeau Villaret de Joyeuse Federico Gravina
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| Strength | |||||||||
| Regular army: 55,000, Volunteers: 100,000+ 31,000 |
Regular army: 60,000, 86 warships and frigates |
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| Casualties and losses | |||||||||
| Haitians: 200,000 dead British: 45,000 dead |
France: 75,000 dead | ||||||||
| White colonists: 25,000 | |||||||||
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Haitian victory
1791–1793 Slave owners Kingdom of France (until 1792) French Republic
1793–1798 French Republic
The Haitian Revolution (French: Révolution haïtienne [ʁevɔlysjɔ̃ ajisjɛ̃n]), was a successful anti-slavery and anti-colonial insurrection that took place in the former French colony of Saint-Domingue that lasted from 1791 until 1804. It affected the institution of slavery throughout the Americas. Self-liberated slaves destroyed slavery at home, fought to preserve their freedom, and with the collaboration of mulattoes, founded the sovereign state of Haiti. It led to the greatest slave uprising since Spartacus's unsuccessful revolt against the Roman Republic nearly 1,900 years prior.
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