Haitian revolutionary forces

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The Haitian revolutionary forces were the insurgent armies of formerly enslaved and free Black people who fought the French colonial regime and ultimately secured Haiti’s independence in the late 18th and early 19th centuries.

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Predicate Object
instanceOf insurgent movement ⓘ
military organization ⓘ
revolutionary army ⓘ
alliedWith French Republican commissioners (against royalists and planters) ⓘ
Spanish forces in Santo Domingo (early phase) ⓘ
country Haiti ⓘ
Saint-Domingue ⓘ
endTime 1804 ⓘ
hasEthnicComposition formerly enslaved Africans ⓘ
free Black people ⓘ
gens de couleur libres ⓘ
maroons ⓘ
hasLeader Alexandre Pétion ⓘ
André Rigaud ⓘ
Capois-La-Mort ⓘ
Dutty Boukman ⓘ
Georges Biassou ⓘ
Henri Christophe ⓘ
Jean-François Papillon ⓘ
Jean-Jacques Dessalines ⓘ
Mackandal (symbolic precursor) ⓘ
linked to: Mackandal

Sanité Bélair ⓘ
Toussaint Louverture ⓘ
ideology Black emancipation ⓘ
anti-colonialism ⓘ
anti-slavery ⓘ
influenced abolitionist movements in the Atlantic world ⓘ
slave resistance in the Americas ⓘ
influencedBy French Revolution ideals ⓘ
Vodou religious practices ⓘ
languageUsed French ⓘ
Haitian Kreyòl ⓘ
linked to: Haitian Creole
notableBattle Battle of Vertières ⓘ
Siege of Crête-à-Pierrot ⓘ
opposedTo French colonial regime in Saint-Domingue ⓘ
French expeditionary forces of Napoleon Bonaparte ⓘ
French slave-owning planters ⓘ
partOf Haitian Revolution ⓘ
result abolition of slavery in Saint-Domingue ⓘ
establishment of the first Black republic ⓘ
first successful large-scale slave revolt in modern history ⓘ
independence of Haiti ⓘ
significantEvent 1791 slave uprising in the Northern Plain ⓘ
Battle of Vertières ⓘ
Bwa Kayiman ceremony ⓘ
War of Knives ⓘ
linked to: War of the Knives

expulsion of French forces from Saint-Domingue ⓘ
startTime 1791 ⓘ
usedTactic alliances with foreign powers ⓘ
guerrilla warfare ⓘ
scorched earth strategy ⓘ

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Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.

Emperor Jacques I → militaryBranch → Haitian revolutionary forces ⓘ
Conference of American Armies → hasMember → Army of Haiti ⓘ
linked to: Haitian revolutionary forces
Siege of Cap-Français → hasParticipant → revolutionary forces in Saint-Domingue ⓘ
linked to: Haitian revolutionary forces
Napoleonic expedition to Saint-Domingue → belligerent → Haitian revolutionary army ⓘ
linked to: Haitian revolutionary forces