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WORLD HISTORY
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Detailed explanation-1: -The island was initially claimed by Spain, which later ceded the western third of the island to France. Prior to gaining its independence in 1804, Haiti was the French colony of Saint-Domingue .
Detailed explanation-2: -Charles Leclerc, in full Charles-Victor-Emmanuel Leclerc, (born March 17, 1772, Pontoise, France-died Nov. 2, 1802, Cap-Français, Saint-Domingue), French general, brother-in-law of Napoleon, who attempted to suppress the Haitian revolt led by the former slave Toussaint Louverture.
Detailed explanation-3: -The revolt began on 22 August 1791, and ended in 1804 with the former colony’s independence. It involved black, biracial, French, Spanish, British, and Polish participants-with the ex-slave Toussaint Louverture emerging as Haiti’s most prominent general.
Detailed explanation-4: -Jean-Jacques Dessalines, one of l’Overture’s generals and himself a former slave, led the revolutionaries at the Battle of Vertieres on November 18, 1803 where the French forces were defeated. On January 1, 1804, Dessalines declared the nation independent and renamed it Haiti.