Although Aristide accepted the plan, it was rejected by the opposition, which mostly consisted of Haitian businessmen and former members of the army ( who sought to reinstate the military following Aristide's disbandment of it ).

* November 18 – Battle of Vertières: The Haitian army led by Jean-Jacques Dessalines defeats the army of Napoleon.

In September 1991 the army performed a coup against him ( 1991 Haitian coup d ' état ), led by Army General Raoul Cédras, who had been promoted by Aristide in June to Commander in Chief of the Army.

Aristide disbanded the Haitian army, and established a civilian police force.

An early death among Europeans was very common due to diseases and conflicts ; the French soldiers that Napoleon sent in 1802 to quell the revolt in Saint-Domingue were attacked by Yellow fever during the Haitian Revolution, and more than half of the French army died of disease.

He obtained a scholarship from FADH to the Escuela Superior de Poilicia General Alberto Enriquez Gallo in Ecuador ; however when he returned after graduation, the FADH had been dismantled which is why he was never formally was part of the Haitian army.

The group can be considered an alliance between two elements within the coup: armed anti-government gangs and former soldiers of the disbanded Haitian army.

By that time, two coup attempts within the Haitian army had been averted.

It is important to distinguish between the behavior of a few army officers and the entire Haitian Armed Forces which also at the time include the police force.

Yet the abolition of slavery did not allow for independence and did not prevent Toussaint L ' Ouverture from joining the Spanish army working towards the greater goal of a sovereign Haitian state.

It was fought between Haitian rebels led by Jean-Jacques Dessalines and the French colonial army under the Viscount of Rochambeau.

The revolution left in place the affranchi élite which continued to rule Haiti, while the formidable Haitian army kept them in power.

Reiss is writing a biography of General Thomas-Alexandre Dumas, the mixed-race son of a Norman marquis and an Haitian slave, who became a swashbuckling swordsman in Paris and then a military hero of the French Revolutionary Wars, remaining the highest-ranking black military figure in a Western army until Gen. Colin Powell 200 years later.

Joseph-Michel François was a colonel in the Haitian army.

* After he drove the Haitian army out of the country in the Dominican War of Independence, he almost immediately moved to eliminate the very Independentists that fought alongside him.

At the time, Christophe was a general in the Haitian army and chief administrator of the country's northern regions.

In 1816, with Haitian soldiers and vital material support ( on the condition that he abolish slavery ), Bolívar landed in Venezuela and captured Angostura ( now Ciudad Bolívar ).

Whites and free people of color, some of whom were also slaveholders, emigrated as refugees to the US during the years of upheaval, now known as the Haitian Revolution.

Cajun French is almost solely derived from Acadian French as it was spoken in the French colony of Acadia ( located in what are now the Maritime provinces of Canada and in Maine ) at the time of the expulsion of the Acadians in the mid-18th century ; however, a significant amount of cultural vocabulary is derived from Spanish, German, Portuguese, and Haitian Creole.

Clarke also brought in players who would become key figures in the future like Haitian International Fabrice Noel, then Englishman, now Kenyan International, Taiwo Atieno Willie Simms on loan from New England Revolution, and John Krause, who played briefly for Clarke on the Mariners.

Many residents of colonial Santo Domingo, now the Dominican Republic, left for Puerto Rico as a consequence of the cession of Santo Domingo to France in 1795, the Haitian invasions from 1801-1803 and later occupation from 1822-1844.

Although this peg was abandoned in 1989 and the currency now floats, because of the old link, five gourdes is often referred to as a " Haitian dollar ".

Mattapan now has the largest Haitian community in Massachusetts, and is also largely made up of African Americans and immigrants from other Caribbean countries.

Louisiana Creole, a creole which developed long before Haitian immigrants arrived in Louisiana, largely developed as the tongue of the Louisiana Creole community and a significant portion of self-identified Cajuns. However, linguists now believe that the Colonial and Acadian dialects have largely merged into modern Louisiana French, but remain distinct from Louisiana Creole.

The entire island remained under Haitian rule until 1844, when in the east a nationalist group called La Trinitaria led a revolt that helped convert the country into the Dominican Republic.

Haitian intellectuals, led by Louis-Joseph Janvier and Anténor Firmin, engaged in a war of letters against a tide of racism and Social Darwinism that emerged during this period.

In 2002, the Canadian International Development Agency led a training program for Haitian Credit Unions.

* 2004 Haitian coup d ' état – a conflict fought for several weeks in Haiti during February 2004 that resulted in the premature end of President Jean-Bertrand Aristide's second term, and the installment of an interim government led by Gerard Latortue.

* February 9, 1822 – The invading Haitian forces led by Jean Pierre Boyer arrive in Santo Domingo, to overthrow the newly founded Republic.

* February 9 – The invading Haitian forces led by Jean Pierre Boyer arrive in Santo Domingo, to overthrow the newly founded Republic.

Nicknamed the " Pearl of the Antilles ", Saint-Domingue became the richest colony in the Caribbean before a 1791 slave revolt, which began the Haitian Revolution, led to freedom for the colony's slaves in 1794 and, a decade later, complete independence for the country, which renamed itself Haiti.

Famous historic slave rebellions have been led by the Roman slave Spartacus ; the thrall Tunni who rebelled against the Swedish monarch Ongentheow, a rebellion that needed Danish assistance to be quelled ; the poet-prophet Ali bin Muhammad, who led imported east African slaves in Iraq during the Zanj Rebellion against the Abbasid Caliphate in the ninth century ; Granny Nanny of the Maroons who rebelled against the British in Jamaica ; the Haitian Revolution, the only slave revolt which led to the founding of a country ; Denmark Vesey in South Carolina, USA ; and Madison Washington during the Creole case in 19th century America.

* One of the most successful slave uprisings was the Haitian Revolution, which began in 1791 and was eventually led by Toussaint L ' Ouverture, culminating in the independent black republic of Haiti.

Santo Domingo was again the capital of a free nation, when Dominicans gained their independence from Haitian rule on February 27, 1844 led by their national hero Juan Pablo Duarte.

It is Ogun who is said to have planted the idea in the heads of, led and given power to the slaves for the Haitian Revolution of 1804.

In the nineteenth century, slave revolts such as the Haitian Revolution and especially the 1831 rebellion led by Nat Turner increased slaveholder fears, and most southern states passed laws making manumission nearly impossible.

The Haitian revolution of 1791 led to many colonial French and their slaves fleeing to Oriente.

He led the 2004 Haitian coup d ' état that ousted Jean-Bertrand Aristide and he was a presidential candidate in the Haitian general election, 2006.

Equal rights for free people of color became an early central issue of the Haitian Revolution, although the struggle within Haiti between the gens de couleur led by Julien Raimond and the black Haitians led by Toussaint Louverture devolved into the War of the Knives.

The Haitian Revolution was the only slave revolt which led to the founding of a state.

Haitian forces, led by Boyer, invaded neighboring Dominican Republic in February 1822.