Haitian revolutionary forces

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insurgent movement military organization revolutionary army

The Haitian revolutionary forces were the insurgent armies of formerly enslaved and free Black people who fought the French colonial regime and ultimately secured Haiti’s independence in the late 18th and early 19th centuries.

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All labels observed (3)

Label	Occurrences
Army of Haiti	1
Haitian revolutionary forces canonical	1
revolutionary forces in Saint-Domingue	1

Statements (51)

Predicate	Object
instanceOf	insurgent movement ⓘ military organization ⓘ revolutionary army ⓘ
alliedWith	French Republican commissioners (against royalists and planters) NERFINISHED ⓘ Spanish forces in Santo Domingo (early phase) NERFINISHED ⓘ
country	Haiti ⓘ Saint-Domingue NERFINISHED ⓘ
endTime	1804 ⓘ
hasEthnicComposition	formerly enslaved Africans ⓘ free Black people ⓘ gens de couleur libres ⓘ maroons ⓘ
hasLeader	Alexandre Pétion NERFINISHED ⓘ André Rigaud NERFINISHED ⓘ Capois-La-Mort NERFINISHED ⓘ Dutty Boukman NERFINISHED ⓘ Georges Biassou NERFINISHED ⓘ Henri Christophe NERFINISHED ⓘ Jean-François Papillon NERFINISHED ⓘ Jean-Jacques Dessalines NERFINISHED ⓘ Mackandal (symbolic precursor) NERFINISHED ⓘ Sanité Bélair NERFINISHED ⓘ Toussaint Louverture NERFINISHED ⓘ
ideology	Black emancipation ⓘ anti-colonialism ⓘ anti-slavery ⓘ
influenced	abolitionist movements in the Atlantic world ⓘ slave resistance in the Americas ⓘ
influencedBy	French Revolution ideals NERFINISHED ⓘ Vodou religious practices ⓘ
languageUsed	French ⓘ Haitian Kreyòl NERFINISHED ⓘ
notableBattle	Battle of Vertières NERFINISHED ⓘ Siege of Crête-à-Pierrot NERFINISHED ⓘ
opposedTo	French colonial regime in Saint-Domingue ⓘ French expeditionary forces of Napoleon Bonaparte NERFINISHED ⓘ French slave-owning planters ⓘ
partOf	Haitian Revolution NERFINISHED ⓘ
result	abolition of slavery in Saint-Domingue ⓘ establishment of the first Black republic ⓘ first successful large-scale slave revolt in modern history ⓘ independence of Haiti ⓘ
significantEvent	1791 slave uprising in the Northern Plain ⓘ Battle of Vertières NERFINISHED ⓘ Bwa Kayiman ceremony NERFINISHED ⓘ War of Knives NERFINISHED ⓘ expulsion of French forces from Saint-Domingue ⓘ
startTime	1791 ⓘ
usedTactic	alliances with foreign powers ⓘ guerrilla warfare ⓘ scorched earth strategy ⓘ

Referenced by (3)

Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.

Emperor Jacques I → militaryBranch → Haitian revolutionary forces ⓘ

Conference of American Armies → hasMember → Haitian revolutionary forces ⓘ

this entity surface form: Army of Haiti

Siege of Cap-Français → hasParticipant → Haitian revolutionary forces ⓘ

this entity surface form: revolutionary forces in Saint-Domingue