Haitian Revolution: Battle of Port-Républicain: British troops capture the capital of Saint-Domingue.

The Haitian Revolution was a successful insurrection by rebellious self-liberated enslaved Africans against French colonial rule in Saint-Domingue, now the sovereign state of Haiti. The revolution was the only known slave rebellion in human history that led to the founding of a state which was both free from slavery and ruled by non-whites and former captives.

The Battle of Port-Républicain took place during the Haitian Revolution (1791–1804).

Saint-Domingue was a French colony in the western portion of the Caribbean island of Hispaniola, in the area of modern-day Haiti, from 1659 to 1803. The name derives from the Spanish main city on the island, Santo Domingo, which came to refer specifically to the Spanish-held Captaincy General of Santo Domingo, now the Dominican Republic. The borders between the two were fluid and changed over time until they were finally solidified in the Dominican War of Independence in 1844.

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