HISTORY
ABSOLUTISM AND REVOLUTION
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Question
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Who did Toussaint L’Ouverture lead forces against?
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France
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Italy
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Germany
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Spain
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Explanation:
Detailed explanation-1: -Toussaint Louverture led a successful slave revolt and emancipated the slaves in the French colony of Saint-Domingue (Haiti). A formidable military leader, he turned the colony into a country governed by former black slaves as a nominal French protectorate and made himself ruler of the entire island of Hispaniola .
Detailed explanation-2: -Napoleon sent General Charles Leclerc to overthrow him and restore French rule, but Haitians, led by Jean-Jacques Dessalines and Henry Christophe, prevailed over the French, and Dessalines declared Haiti independent in 1804.
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