Here Dubroca villifies Dessalines in a book published in Mexico. Intended to instigate counter-revolution, the crude illustrations emphasize the anarchy and cruelty of the Haitian general.

Haiti's transitional council president Leslie Voltaire said in an interview on Wednesday that a date for the Caribbean nation ...

Le parti MUDHAH alerte sur la dégradation de la commune de Marchand Dessalines et appelle l’État à agir brèves ...

Haitian leader Jean-Jacques Dessalines also demanded arms and ammunition, but the British denied his request. After Corbet's second trip, he wrote a letter to then-Gov. George Nugent of Jamaica.

On January 1, 1804, President Jean Jacques Dessalines proclaimed the free republic of Haiti -- deriving the name from an indigenous word meaning "a higher place." Word of the rebellion in the ...

In the aftermath of a tumultuous revolution, following the death of his mentor, Toussaint Louverture, Commander Jean-Jacques Dessalines has taken up the mantle as the country’s leader.

Toussaint was captured and exiled, but the fighting continued under the leadership of Jean Jacques Dessalines and Henri Christophe. On January 1, 1804, Dessalines proclaimed himself ruler of the ...

Dessalines est le principal fondateur d’Haïti et le vainqueur de l’armée de Napoléon Bonaparte avant Waterloo. Il a été assassiné deux ans après la proclamation de l’Indépendance et a été objet d’une ...

In 1803, two months after his defeat of Napoleon Bonaparte's colonial forces, Jean-Jacques Dessalines proclaimed the independence of Saint-Domingue, renaming it Haiti after its original Arawak name.

In 1803, two months after his defeat of Napoleon Bonaparte's colonial forces, Jean-Jacques Dessalines proclaimed the independence of Saint-Domingue, renaming it Haiti after its original Arawak name.