Story of one hundred years : A comprehensive review of the political and military events, the social, intellectual and material progress, and the general state of mankind in all landsEmbodying detailed and accurate accounts of all things of importance and interest, from 1801 to 1900, inclusive . eadquar-ters. A bloody battle followed, in which neither could claim the French were said to have tortured their prisoners and then put todeath 500 of them. Dessalines, hearing of this, caused 500 gibbets tobe erected, and after selecting all the French officers, made up the num-ber out of
Story of one hundred years : A comprehensive review of the political and military events, the social, intellectual and material progress, and the general state of mankind in all landsEmbodying detailed and accurate accounts of all things of importance and interest, from 1801 to 1900, inclusive . eadquar-ters. A bloody battle followed, in which neither could claim the French were said to have tortured their prisoners and then put todeath 500 of them. Dessalines, hearing of this, caused 500 gibbets tobe erected, and after selecting all the French officers, made up the num-ber out of the other prisoners, and hung them up at break of day insight of the French army. The misery of the French was completedby the breaking out of the war with England in 1803. A British squad-ron blockaded Cape Francois ; the town was reduced by famine, andRochambeau surrendered at the end of the year. BLOODY INDEPENDENCE. On the I St of January, 1804, the independence of the island wasformally proclaimed, and it resumed its aboriginal name of Hayti. JeanJacques Dessalines was appointed Governor-General for life. His firstact was to encourage the return of those blacks who had taken refuge inthe United States. He next excited the people to a horrible massacre I > HH PIC H> > rC>.
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