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Toussaint Louverture Defeats Invaders

Toussaint Louverture Defeats Invaders
During the civil war that followed the Haitian slave uprising, British and Spanish forces invaded the French colony. Haitian leader Toussaint Louverture, right, defeated the European generals in battle, then ruled Haiti until 1802.
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Abolitionist Movement; Spanish Empire; Haiti; Philadelphia (city, Pennsylvania); Blacks in Latin America; Colonialism and Colonies; Haitian Slave Revolt; Haitian Independence and the Limits of the Enlightenment
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