British expedition to Saint-Domingue

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The British expedition to Saint-Domingue was a major late-18th-century military campaign in the Haitian Revolution, in which Britain intervened in the French colony of Saint-Domingue seeking to seize control amid widespread slave uprisings and revolutionary turmoil.

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Predicate Object
instanceOf British military intervention
event in the Haitian Revolution
military campaign
conflict Haitian Revolution
conflictType colonial war
intervention in a slave revolt
endTime 1798
goal control of profitable sugar plantations
seizure of Saint-Domingue from France
weakening of Revolutionary France
hasCause British desire to seize French Caribbean colonies
French Revolution
French revolutionary turmoil
War of the First Coalition
slave uprisings in Saint-Domingue
influenced British imperial policy in the Caribbean
course of the Haitian Revolution
location Caribbean
Hispaniola
French colony of Saint-Domingue
surface form: Saint-Domingue
opponent Black insurgent forces in Saint-Domingue
French Republican forces
Toussaint Louverture
tropical diseases
yellow fever
opposedBy abolitionist sentiment in Britain
participant France
French Republic
French royalists in Saint-Domingue
Great Britain
Kingdom of Great Britain
Toussaint Louverture
enslaved rebels in Saint-Domingue
partOf French Revolutionary Wars
Haitian Revolution
relatedTo abolition of slavery in the French colonies
rise of independent Haiti
result British expedition to Saint-Domingue self-linksurface differs
surface form: British withdrawal from Saint-Domingue

consolidation of Black control over much of Saint-Domingue
failure of British attempt to conquer Saint-Domingue
heavy British casualties
strengthening of Toussaint Louverture’s position
significantEvent British alliance with some French planters and royalists
British occupation of coastal towns in Saint-Domingue
epidemics among British troops
series of battles between British forces and insurgent armies
startTime 1793
temporalContext late 18th century

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British expeditionary forces notableDeployment British expedition to Saint-Domingue
subject surface form: British Expeditionary Forces
British expedition to Saint-Domingue result British expedition to Saint-Domingue self-linksurface differs
this entity surface form: British withdrawal from Saint-Domingue
War of the Knives predecessor British expedition to Saint-Domingue
this entity surface form: British invasion of Saint-Domingue