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    Jean-Jacques Dessalines (Haitian Creole: Jan-Jak Desalin; French pronunciation: [ʒɑ̃ ʒak dɛsalin]; 20 September 1758 – 17 October 1806) was the first Haitian Emperor...
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    from Jean-Jacques Dessalines against much of the remaining European population in Haiti, which mainly included French people. The Haitian Revolution defeated...
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    commanded by Dessalines himself. On February 25, 1805, Dessalines at the head of 30,000 men captured Santiago. On the southern road, the Haitian emperor realized...
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  • ships that Haiti had purged itself of Europeans. Soon after independence, Haiti was proclaimed an empire under Dessalines. When Dessalines was overthrown...
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  • Marchand. During the Haitian revolution, Dessalines organized most of his troops from the town of Petite Riviere de Artibonite. Dessalines asked Pétion to...
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    pronunciation: [la dɛs.salinjɛn]; Haitian Creole: "Desalinyèn"; English: "The Dessalines Song") is the national anthem of Haiti. This march was written by Justin...
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    elites, and Dessalines. A conspiracy led by the mulatto elites ultimately led to Dessalines assassination and two separate sovereign states of Haiti. The 1804...
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  • and full citizenship under the Haitian constitution by Jean-Jacques Dessalines, the first ruler of an independent Haiti. In 1802, Napoleon dispatched a...
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    of Gonaïves by Jean-Jacques Dessalines, marking the end of 13-year long Haitian Revolution. The declaration marked Haiti becoming the first independent...
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    Catherine Flon have appeared on Haitian currency and stamps. Following his proclamation as Emperor Jacques I, Dessalines promulgated a new constitution...
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    Jean-Jacques Dessalines proclaimed Haiti's independence. On 8 October 1804, Dessalines is crowned emperor in Cap-Haitian under the name of Jacques I. But...
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  • Dessaline is a village in the Les Cayes commune of the Les Cayes Arrondissement, in the Sud department of Haiti. "Location" (Map). Google Maps. Retrieved...
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  • "Julia Gaffield: Dessalines Day, October 17". University of North Carolina Press. Retrieved 16 October 2017. "Origins of the Haitian Flag". Archived from...
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    the State of Haiti, in the northern part of the country. This was Haiti's second attempt at monarchical rule, as Jean-Jacques Dessalines had previously...
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    necessity to overthrow Dessalines's government, and proclaimed Christophe head of the provisional Haitian government. Dessalines was assassinated on 17...
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    movement splintered, and Dessalines was assassinated by rivals on 17 October 1806.[Link to precise page] After Dessalines' death Haiti became split into two...
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  • Marie-Claire Heureuse Félicité (category Dessalines family)
    Bonheur, Empress of Haiti (8 May 1758 – 8 August 1858) was the Empress of Haiti (1804–1806) as the wife of Jean-Jacques Dessalines. She was born in Léogâne...
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  • Afro-Haitians or Black Haitians (French: Afro-Haïtiens, Haïtiens Noirs; Haitian Creole: Afro-Ayisyen, Ayisyen Nwa) are Haitians who trace their full or...
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    much of the remaining European population of Haiti. Jean-Jacques Dessalines, Governor-General of Haiti, ordered the execution of remaining whites; in...
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    designation of Little Haiti, thirty blocks of Rogers Avenue between Farragut Road and Eastern Parkway were co-named Jean-Jacques Dessalines Boulevard. The street...
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    The Dominican Republic–Haiti border is an international border between the Dominican Republic and the Republic of Haiti on the island of Hispaniola. Extending...
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    genocide of the French population in Haiti by Dessaline's army, which ended in April of that year, Jean-Jacques Dessalines, who later declared himself Emperor...
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    under Dessalines during the Haitian Revolution became the new planter class of Haiti. In order to slow the economic collapse of Haiti, Dessalines enforced...
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    of the Haitian revolution, Jean-Jacques Dessalines, declared Haiti's independence. Independence did not come easily given the fact that Haiti had been...
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  • Empire of Haiti may refer to: First Empire of Haiti, the regime under Jean-Jacques Dessalines (Jacques I) from 1804 to 1806 Second Empire of Haiti, the regime...
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  • Dessalines can refer to: Jean-Jacques Dessalines, a general and statesman of Haiti. La Dessalinienne, the national anthem of Haiti named in his honor....
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    aide-de-camp of Lavalette brought a letter to Dessalines with the terms of their capitulation. Dessalines accepted with an exchange of prisoners and adjuvant-general...
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    Dessalines (Haitian Creole: Desalin) is an arrondissement in the Artibonite department of Haiti. https://www.ihsi.ht/pdf/projection/POPTOTAL&MENAGDENS_ESTIM2009...
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    Cincinnatus Leconte (category Dessalines family)
    Jean Jacques Dessalines Michel Cincinnatus Leconte (September 29, 1854 – August 8, 1912) was President of Haiti from August 15, 1911, until his death on...
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    assassination of the Emperor Dessalines in 1806, the First Empire of Haiti collapsed and was divided between two former generals of Dessalines. Initially, Henri...
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