The Haitian Revolution was fought from 1791 to 1804 in the French colony of Saint-Domingue, beginning as a slave uprising and culminating in the establishment of Haiti as the first independent nation founded by formerly enslaved people and the first Black-led republic in the modern world. The revolt, inspired partly by the ideals of the French Revolution, was led at various stages by figures including Toussaint Louverture, who rose from enslavement to command the colony's forces and negotiate its autonomy, before Napoleon Bonaparte's attempt to restore slavery and French control triggered renewed war under Jean-Jacques Dessalines after Louverture's capture and death in French custody in 1803. Dessalines defeated the French expeditionary force, decimated by yellow fever as much as by combat, and declared Haitian independence on 1 January 1804. The revolution abolished slavery permanently in the new nation, inflicted a catastrophic loss on Napoleon's colonial ambitions that contributed to France's decision to sell the Louisiana Territory, and stood for decades afterward as a singular and threatening example to slaveholding societies across the Americas.
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CombatantsEnslaved and free Haitian rebels versus French colonial and Napoleonic forces, with British and Spanish intervention from 1793 to 1798 1 OutcomeHaitian victory; independence declared on 1 January 1804 and slavery abolished 1 Classification
Conflict TypeColonial or Anti-Colonial War 1 Haitian Revolution
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The revolution was one of the only known slave rebellions in human history that led to the founding of a state which was both free from slavery (though not from forced labour) and ruled by former captives.
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The Haitian Revolution, also known as the Haitian War of Independence, was a successful insurrection by enslaved Africans against French colonial rule in Saint-Domingue, now the sovereign state of Haiti.
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The Haitian Revolution, also known as the Haitian War of Independence, was a successful insurrection by enslaved Africans against French colonial rule in Saint-Domingue, now the sovereign state of Haiti.
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French and Indian Wars, Chickasaw Wars, Austrian War of Succession, Jacobite rising of 1745, Karnatic Wars, Seven Years' War, Larache expedition, American War of Independence, Haitian Revolution, French Revolutionary Wars, Coalition Wars, United Irishmen Rebellion, Napoleonic Wars, Emmet's Insurrection, Siege of Santo Domingo of 1805, War of 1812, Greek War of Independence, Franco-Trarzan War of 1825, French conquest of Algeria, First Franco-Mexican War, Franco-Moroccan War, French-Tahitian War, Cochinchina campaign, American Civil War, Garnier Expedition, Tonkin campaign
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American War of Independence, Haitian Revolution, French Revolutionary Wars, Coalition Wars, United Irishmen Rebellion, Napoleonic Wars, Emmet's Insurrection, Siege of Santo Domingo of 1805, War of 1812, Greek War of Independence, Franco-Trarzan War of 1825, French conquest of Algeria, First Franco-Mexican War, Franco-Moroccan War, French-Tahitian War, American Civil War
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Indian Wars, Seven Years' War, Anglo-Spanish War, Invasion of Portugal, Twenty Years' War, American Revolutionary war, Spanish-Portuguese War, Haitian Revolution, French Revolutionary Wars, War of the Pyrenees, Anglo-Spanish War, War of the Oranges, Saint-Domingue expedition, Napoleonic Wars, Peninsular War, Bolivian War of Independence, Venezuelan War of Independence, Argentine War of Independence, Mexican War of Independence, Chilean War of Independence, Spanish reconquest of New Granada, Ecuadorian War of Independence, Spanish reconquest attempts in Mexico, French invasion of Spain, Portuguese Civil War, First Carlist War, Mexican-American War, Second Carlist War, Cochinchina Campaign, Hispano-Moroccan War, Dominican Restoration War, Chincha Islands War, Ten Years' War
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