Haitian Revolution
Part of the Atlantic Revolutions, French Revolutionary Wars, and Napoleonic Wars.
Battle at San Domingo, a painting by January Suchodolski, depicting a struggle between Polish troops in French service and the slave rebels and freed revolutionary soldiers
(12 years, 4 months, 1 week and 4 days)
Result
Haitian victory
Belligerents
Ex-slaves
French royalists
Spain (from 1793)
French royalists
Great Britain
Spain (until 1796)
Louverture Loyalists
Ex-slaves
Ex-slaves
Rigaud Loyalists
Spain
French Republic
Spain
Commanders and leaders
Dutty Boukman †
Georges Biassou
Vincent Ogé
André Rigaud
Paul-Louis Dubuc
Thomas Maitland
Joaquín Moreno
Toussaint Louverture
Toussaint
Louverture
Jean-Jacques Dessalines
Henri Christophe
Alexandre Pétion
François Capois
John Duckworth
John Loring 1791–1793
Viscount de Blanchelande
Léger-Félicité Sonthonax
Toussaint Louverture
André Rigaud
Alexandre Pétion
André Rigaud
Napoleon Bonaparte
Charles Leclerc †
Vicomte de Rochambeau
Villaret de Joyeuse
Federico Gravina
Strength
Regular army: 55,000,
Volunteers: 100,000+
31,000[1] Regular army: 60,000,
86 warships and frigates
Casualties and losses
Haitians: 200,000 dead[2]
British: 45,000 dead[2] France: 75,000 dead[2]
White colonists: 25,000[2]
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Bois Caïman
Fort-Dauphin
Jean-Rabel
War of Knives
Snake Gully
Crête-à-Pierrot
Blockade of Saint-Domingue
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Bois Caïman
Fort-Dauphin
Jean-Rabel
War of Knives
Snake Gully
Crête-à-Pierrot
Blockade of Saint-Domingue
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Porrentruy
Marquain
Verdun
Thionville
Valmy
Lille
Mainz
Jemappes
1st Limburg (fr)
Anderlecht (fr)
Namur (fr)
Maastricht
1st Aldenhoven
Neerwinden
Condé
2nd Mainz
Raismes
Famars
Bellegarde
San Pietro and SantAntioco
1st Saorgio
1st Arlon
Valenciennes
Perpignan
Caesars Camp
Lincelles
Landau
Dunkirk
Le Quesnoy
Hondshoote
Avesnes-le-Sec
Menin
Méribel
Pirmasens
Epierre
Peyrestortes
Toulon
Truillas