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Old 10-08-2010, 06:00 PM   #14
VemyhemiHef

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Read this please. No politics, just basic history
Louisana Purchase was in April 1803
Haitian Independenca proclained 1 January 1804
The one might have been tied to the other but certainly not the result of the other.

I feel fairly certain that Napoleon realized that he was losing Haiti. His brother-in-law LeClerq was losing men to disease and vermin at a much faster rate than from the Haitians. Without Haiti, there was really no reason to keep Louisiana as a supply depot for Haiti.

At the moment of Haitian Independence, if we go by normal happening throughout history, everything that France had on the island should have become Haiti, right?
Well it so happended that Spain has ceded the eastern portion of the island, Santo Domingo to France via the Treaty of Basel (Basilea in Spanish) in 1795 or therabouts.
Toussaint had attempted to exercise controll over the eastern part, but failed.

After Haitian Independance, a Frenchman by the name of Ferrand took control of most of the eastern (former Spanish) portion, in the name of France, and ran it for a while, until Sanchez Ramirez defeated him at Palo Hincado. But Sanchez and his group were not strong enough to govern the whole place!Not even Santo Domingo which was still in French hands...Sanchez and his people needed the help of a British squadron to strangle the people in Sto Domingo into surrendering, but they would not surrender to the "Dominicans" but only to the English!! And then the English required the Dominicans to pay them for their expenses!!

And the colony was still, in theory, part of the French colony of Saint Domingue that had become Haiti. Because of the death of Toussaint and the internal divisions between Cristophe and the others, it was not until Boyer gained control of the whole western half, including the part that Cristophe had controlled and, promising land to the now out-of-work soldiers, took over the eastern part, almost without having to fire a shot.

(This was posted in another thread)

HB
I read that part of the reason the Haitians wanted control over the Eastern part of the Island, which is today the DR, was out of fear that the French would come back and invade and domininate the Haitian part. Maybe the battles against the French, when they sent an army back to regain control, had been very brutal and the Haitians had lost a lot of men. So they would do anything to avoid it again. Besides they did not want to be slaves again.
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