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    beginning in 1625, the economy of Saint-Domingue (today Haiti), was based on slavery; conditions on Saint-Domingue became notoriously bad even compared...
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    Boileau-Domingue (born March 6, 1992) is a Canadian professional ice hockey goaltender for the New York Rangers of the National Hockey League (NHL). Domingue...
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    Général-Chef de l'Armée Indigène on 18 May 1803. His forces defeated the French army at the Battle of Vertières on 18 November 1803. Saint-Domingue was declared...
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    the French colonies. However, the 1794 decree was only implemented in Saint-Domingue, Guadeloupe and Guiana; it did not take effect in Mauritius, Réunion...
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    in 1781, setting sail with 3,000 troops from Saint-Domingue, where the French Caribbean fleet was based. De Grasse landed the French reinforcements in Virginia...
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    Engagé (category People from Saint-Domingue)
    nationality. As the social systems of Saint-Domingue began eroding after the 1760s, the plantation economy of Saint-Domingue also began weakening. The price...
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    the colonies of Saint-Domingue and Guadeloupe. However, Napoleon reinstated it in 1802 and attempted to regain control of Saint-Domingue by sending in thousands...
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    Alexandre Pétion (category People from Saint-Domingue)
    1788 to be educated and study at the Military Academy in Paris. In Saint-Domingue, as in other French colonies such as Louisiane, the free people of color...
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    a landowner of Saint-Domingue. M. Demorny was in fact an officer in the Prussian army and a native of the French colony of St. Domingue (now Haiti), though...
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    Haiti (category Member states of the Organisation internationale de la Francophonie)
    until 1697, when the western portion was ceded to France and became Saint-Domingue, dominated by sugarcane plantations worked by enslaved Africans. The...
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    1782, near the end of the war. In 1779, more than 500 recruits from Saint-Domingue (the French colony which later became Haiti), under the overall command...
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    Pierre Toussaint (category People from Saint-Marc)
    hairdressers. Bérard then returned to Saint-Domingue to see to his property. After Jean Bérard died in St. Domingue of pleurisy, Pierre, who was becoming...
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    in Copenhagen Conference "Benoît Chassériau, náufrago de Saint-Domingue, revolucionario en la Tierra Firme y agente de la Francia de la Restauración"...
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    colony of Saint-Domingue (today's Haiti) was founded on the western half of the Spanish island of Hispaniola. In the 18th century, Saint-Domingue grew to...
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    1802, Bonaparte reintroduced it in all the recovered colonies except Saint-Domingue and Guadeloupe which were under the control of rebel generals. A French...
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    António de Oliveira Salazar GCTE GCSE GColIH GCIC (28 April 1889 – 27 July 1970) was a Portuguese statesman, academic, and economist who served as Prime...
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    city of Le Cap Français, on the north coast of the French colony of Saint-Domingue, now Haiti. Over the next decade, high-degree Freemasonry was carried...
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    Louisiana (redirect from État de Louisiane)
    Louisiana French (Cajun, Creole), Spanish, French Canadian, Acadian, Saint-Domingue Creole, Native American, and West African cultures (generally the descendants...
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    the Americas, while the other established the Sovereign Council of Saint-Domingue. Subsequently, starting in 1723, two supplementary texts were added...
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  • Costa Rica: One lodge in San Jose Dominican Republic: One lodge in Saint Domingue England: One lodge in London Israel: One lodge in Jerusalem, one lodge...
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    a slave rebellion in the colony of Saint-Domingue. However, the 1794 decree was only implemented in Saint-Domingue, Guadeloupe and French Guiana, while...
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    Republic (briefly), Grenada, Haiti (formerly Saint-Domingue), Montserrat (briefly), Saint Lucia, Saint Vincent and the Grenadines, Sint Eustatius (briefly)...
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  • Caledonia New Hebrides (condominium with Britain) Réunion Saint Barthélemy Saint-Domingue Saint Pierre and Miquelon Shanghai French Concession Wallis and...
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    off Saint-Domingue in the hope of intercepting a French merchant convoy bound for France, but found that the convoy's escort, under Guy François de Coetnempren...
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    Faustin Soulouque (category People from Saint-Domingue)
    15 August 1782 in Petit-Goâve, a small town in the French colony of Saint-Domingue, to a Haitian mother. Soulouque's mother, Marie-Catherine Soulouque...
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    denomination is Catholicism. Similar to the rest of Latin America, Saint-Domingue was built up by Catholic European powers such as the Spanish and the...
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    opportunity to improve their lives or truly live freely. Slavery in Saint-Domingue allowed the cultivation and sale of coffee and sugar to thrive. He opposed...
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    Mauvois: novelist, playwright he won the Casa de las Américas Prize 2004 for Ovando ou Le magicien de Saint-Domingue, Agénor Cacoul, Man Chomil. Alfred Melon-Degras...
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    1781. De Grasse and his fleet had played a decisive part in that victory, after which they returned to the Caribbean. On arrival in Saint-Domingue in November...
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    Cajuns (redirect from Coup de main (cajun))
    in present-day Louisiana, often travelling via the French colony of Saint-Domingue (now Haiti). Joseph Broussard led the first group of 200 Acadians to...
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