WORLD HISTORY

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: -History. The first French to arrive to Haiti were pirates who began to use the island of Tortuga (northern Haiti) in 1625 as a base and settlement for raids against Spanish ships. In 1663, French settlers founded a colony in Léogâne, on the western portion of Hispaniola.

Detailed explanation-3: -The resumption of war in Europe compelled France to withdraw in November 1803. After 300 years of colonial rule, the new nation of Haiti was declared an independent republic. It was only the second nation in the Americas to gain its independence and the first modern state governed by people of African descent.

Detailed explanation-4: -The British started by occupying the southern port of Jérémie and would eventually take Port-au-Prince itself in June 1794. [Haiti, southwestern peninsula, between 1793 and 1798].

Detailed explanation-5: -Napoleon Bonaparte, now the ruler of France, dispatched General Charles Leclerc, his brother-in-law, and 43, 000 French troops to capture L’Overture and restore both French rule and slavery.