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1800s in Haiti

  • Saint-Domingue expeditionIn early 1801, Napoleon Bonaparte decided to appoint his sister Pauline's husband, general Charles Leclerc, as head of a military expedition.
  • Saint-DomingueIn 1625, French buccaneers established a settlement on the island of Tortuga. They survived by pirating ships and eating wild cattle and hogs.