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    Dessalines (French pronunciation: [dɛsalin]; Haitian Creole: Desalin) usually referred to as Marchand-Dessalines (Haitian Creole: Machan Desalin), is a...
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    Pétion-Ville (French pronunciation: [petjɔ̃ vil]; Haitian Creole: Petyonvil) is a commune and a suburb of Port-au-Prince, Haiti, in the hills east and...
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    Both Louverture and Dessalines fought against the French expeditionary forces, but after the Battle of Crête-à-Pierrot, Dessalines defected from his long-time...
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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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    Nicolas, Saint Marc Hôpital Bienfaisance de Pignon Hôpital Claire-Heureuse, Dessalines Hôpital Camejo, Leogane Centre Hospitalier Victor Binkley, Pierre Payen...
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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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    Jean-Jacques Dessalines on 1 January 1804 in Gonaïves and he was proclaimed "Emperor for Life" as Emperor Jacques I by his troops. Dessalines at first offered...
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  • Napoleon abandoned the invasion, which led to Dessalines declaring the independence of Haiti in 1804. Dessalines orchestrated a massacre of the remaining French...
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    Both Louverture and Dessalines fought against the French expeditionary forces, but after the Battle of Crête-à-Pierrot, Dessalines defected from his long-time...
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    it became the capital of newly independent Haïti. When Jean-Jacques Dessalines was assassinated in 1806, Port-au-Prince became the capital of the mulatto-dominated...
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    under the eyes of Dessalines, Henry, Pétion, Geffrard, Boirond Tonnerre, some British troops and many more. The town of Dessalines became the world's...
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    Ouest Port-au-Prince 359,451 Desdunes Artibonite Dessalines 33,672 Dessalines Artibonite Dessalines 165,424 Dondon Nord Saint-Raphaël 31,469 Ennery Artibonite...
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    with 19.52%, leftist senator Jean-Charles Moïse of the Platfòm Pitit Dessalines (PPD) with 11.04%, and Maryse Narcisse of Fanmi Lavalas (FL) with 8.99%...
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    elected for 4 years. Each commune is ruled by a municipality. Dessalines Arrondissement Dessalines Desdunes Grande-Saline Petite Rivière de l'Artibonite Gonaïves...
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  • Papaye[citation needed][dubious – discuss] Accolade GM (Gros-Morne) AS Dessalines AS l'Estère[citation needed] AS Saint-Louis du Nord ("ASSL") AS Trou du...
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    Les Cayes (redirect from La Ville de Cayes)
    Euphémie Daguilh, Royal mistress to the Haitian emperor Jean-Jacques Dessalines Jean Joseph Maurice Dartigue (1903-1983), Minister of Public Instruction...
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  • located at the old airport (at the intersection of Boulevard Jean-Jacques Dessalines and Autoroute de Delmas). From this intersection, Route Nationale #1 and...
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    Haiti's city of independence, because it was the location of Jean-Jacques Dessalines declaring Haiti independent from France on January 1, 1804, by reading...
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    had been abolished in 1806 following the assassination of Jean-Jacques Dessalines, who reigned as Emperor Jacques I of the First Empire of Haiti (another...
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    Revolution. On November 18, 1803, the Haitian army led by Jean-Jacques Dessalines defeated a French colonial army led by the Comte de Rochambeau. The French...
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    l'Artibonite was known as departement of Louverture. Under the administration of Dessalines the country was administrated by military divisions. In 1821, Artibonite...
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    Vertières, on November 29, in the town of Fort-Liberté, Jean-Jacques Dessalines, Henry Christophe, and Auguste Clerveaux declared St-Domingue free and...
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    portray Rigaud as anti-black and ordered his then-lieutenant Jean-Jacques Dessalines to attack the town. The battle was one of the most important scenes of...
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    Pascal-Trouillot was born on August 13, 1943, in the well-to-do suburb of Pétion-Ville in the hills above the crowded capital. Her father, Thimbles, was an iron...
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    Dessalines Arrondissement Desdunes Dessalines Grande Saline Petite Rivière de l'Artibonite Gonaïves Arrondissement Ennery L'Estère Gonaïves Gros-Morne...
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  • Haiti. At the height of his military career François commanded the elite Dessalines Battalion. François was accused twice of conspiring to overthrow the government...
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    Duvalier awarded Haile Selassie the Necklace of the Order of Jean-Jacques Dessalines the Great, and the emperor, in turn, bestowed upon Duvalier the Great...
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    Civil War opposing Toussaint's northern troops with lieutenants like Dessalines and Rigaud's southern troops with lieutenants like Pétion. On September...
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    Vodoun ceremony the general rebellion has started being led by Toussaint, Dessalines, Papillon, Biassou and many more. Within the next ten days slaves had...
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