The blockade of Saint-Domingue was a naval campaign fought during the first months of the Napoleonic Wars in which a series of British Royal Navy squadrons...
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French control of the Caribbean colony of Saint-Domingue on the island of Hispaniola, and curtail the measures of independence and abolition of slaves taken...
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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...
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Haitian Revolution (redirect from Emancipation In Saint Domingue)
in Saint-Domingue, now the sovereign state of Haiti. The revolution was the only known slave uprising in human history that led to the founding of a state...
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Declaration of the Rights of Man and of the Citizen. In 1791, the enslaved Africans of Saint-Domingue began the Haitian Revolution, aimed at the overthrow of the...
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HMS Vanguard (1787) (category Ships of the line of the Royal Navy)
In 1803, under the command of Captain James Walker, Vanguard was operating out of Jamaica on the Blockade of Saint-Domingue. On 30 June, Cumberland and...
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of 28 June 1803 marked the opening shots of the Blockade of Saint-Domingue after the collapse of the Treaty of Amiens and the outbreak of the War of the...
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John Loring (Royal Navy officer, died 1808) (category Royal Navy personnel of the American Revolutionary War)
outbreak of the Napoleonic Wars by superintending the Blockade of Saint-Domingue, with the post of commodore. During the blockade a number of French warships...
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Louis-René Levassor de Latouche Tréville (category People of the War of the First Coalition)
June 1803, and the British carried out a blockade of Saint-Domingue that ended with the complete destruction of Rochambeau's army. In October 1803, Latouche-Tréville...
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HMS Theseus (1786) (category Ships of the line of the Royal Navy)
Theseus took part in the Blockade of Saint-Domingue in 1803, under Captain John Bligh. She also took part in the Battle of the Basque Roads in 1809....
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Toussaint Louverture (category Governors of Saint-Domingue)
Louverture is now known as one of the "Fathers of Haiti". Toussaint Louverture was born as a slave in the French colony of Saint-Domingue, now known as Haiti. He...
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HMS Blanche (1800) (category Fifth-rate frigates of the Royal Navy)
under the command of Captain Zachary Mudge. There the frigate participated in the Blockade of Saint-Domingue and an unsuccessful invasion of Curacao, capturing...
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Indigenous Army (category Military history of Haiti)
Endijèn), also known as the Army of Saint-Domingue (French: Armée de Saint-Domingue) was the name bestowed to the coalition of anti-slavery men and women who...
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This is a list of wars involving the Kingdom of France from 987 until the abolition of the French monarchy on 21 September 1792. For specific battles...
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Lists of battles Before 301 301–1300 1301–1600 1601–1800 1801–1900 1901–2000 2001–current Naval Sieges See also List of Napoleonic Battles Battles of the...
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French frigate Poursuivante (1796) (category Age of Sail frigates of France)
in the fights of the Blockade of Saint-Domingue. Largely outgunned, Poursuivante managed to manoeuvre behind Hercule and in the action of 28 June 1803...
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This is a list of wars involving modern France from the abolition of the French monarchy and the establishment of the French First Republic on 21 September...
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December 6 (redirect from 6th of December)
attempting to escape the Royal Naval blockade of Saint-Domingue are all seized by British warships, signifying the end of the Haitian Revolution. 1865 – Georgia...
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HMS Hercule (1798) (category Ships of the line of the French Navy)
died suddenly on board the ship. On 28 June 1803, during the Blockade of Saint-Domingue in the Caribbean Hercule was under First Lieutenant John B. Hills...
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French frigate Vertu (1794) (category Frigates of the French Navy)
in the Indian Ocean, and in Saint-Domingue. She was captured by the Royal Navy at the end of the Blockade of Saint-Domingue when the island surrendered...
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HMS Guerriere (1806) (redirect from Capture of HMS Guerriere)
Commander Louis Alexis Baudoin, initially trapped in harbour by the Blockade of Saint-Domingue. She was with the 74-gun Duguay-Trouin on 24 July 1803, when the...
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Charles Ross (Royal Navy officer) (category Royal Navy personnel of the War of 1812)
Pique (36), employed at the blockade of Saint-Domingue and witnessed the surrender of the French squadron with the remains of General Rochambeau's army...
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HMS Elephant (1786) (category Ships of the line of the Royal Navy)
participated in the blockade of Saint-Domingue in the same year. The British patrolled off Cap-François. On 24 July the squadron, made up of Bellerophon, Elephant...
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Jean-Baptiste Barré (category French naval commanders of the Napoleonic Wars)
consequence of the Blockade of Saint-Domingue. In October 1802, he commanded the Surveillante. In 1812, he commanded the French forces of the Adriatic...
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June 18 (redirect from 18th of June)
Thomas Duckworth commence the blockade of Saint-Domingue against French forces. 1812 – The United States declaration of war upon the United Kingdom is...
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who controlled the north of Saint-Domingue (modern-day Haiti), and his adversary André Rigaud, a mixed-race free person of color who controlled the south...
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Slavery in Haiti (redirect from Slavery in Saint Domingue)
century in the forced labor of enslaved Africans. During the French colonial period, beginning in 1625, the economy of Saint-Domingue (today Haiti), was based...
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Sir John Duckworth, 1st Baronet (category Knights Grand Cross of the Order of the Bath)
successful Blockade of Saint-Domingue. Duckworth was promoted to vice-admiral of the blue on 23 April 1804, and he was appointed a Colonel of Marines. He...
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John Bligh (Royal Navy officer) (category Companions of the Order of the Bath)
beginning a long period of distinguished service in the Caribbean. He was active in the Blockade of Saint-Domingue after the outbreak of the Napoleonic Wars...
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Henry William Bayntun (category Knights Grand Cross of the Order of the Bath)
then commanded ships of the line, including HMS Thunderer and HMS Cumberland, with which he won acclaim during a successful blockade of the French Caribbean...
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