The Haitian Revolution, 1791 to 1804: Or, Side Lights on the French RevolutionT.Y. Crowell Company, 1914 - 292 páginas |
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The Haitian Revolution, 1791 to 1804: Or, Side Lights on the French Revolution Theophilus Gould Steward Vista de fragmentos - 1971 |
The Haitian Revolution, 1791 to 1804: Or, Side Lights on the French Revolution Theophilus Gould Steward Vista de fragmentos - 1914 |
Términos y frases comunes
André Rigaud Antenor Firmin arms army of Saint arrest arrived attack blacks blood Bonaparte Boyer brigands British Cape François Captain captain-general Chavanne chief Christophe citizens civil Clerc Clervaux Colonial Assembly colony of Saint command Commissioners constitution Consul death declared decree Dessalines dispatch division enemies English evacuation expedition favor fire Firmin force France free colored French army general-in-chief Gonaives governor Governor-General Haiti Haitian Haitian Revolution Hannibal Price History of Haiti honor Independence inhabitants insurrection island Jacmel Jamaica Laveaux Le Clerc Leogane letter liberty March Maurepas ment military mulattoes National Assembly Negroes North officer Ogé peace persons Petion political Port Port-au-Prince possession President prisoners proclamation race reader received reënforcements Republic respect revolution Rigaud Rochambeau Roume Saint Domingo says Schoelcher sent ship slavery slaves soldiers Sonthonax Soulouque South Spain Spanish surrender sword Thiers Tiburon tion took Toussaint L'Ouverture town troops vessels West white colonists
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Página 207 - I have the honour to acquaint you, for the information of my Lords Commissioners of the Admiralty, that at 5 o'clock PM on the 6th of August last, in latitude 24° 44...
Página 163 - ... regard to yourself, yo"u desire repose, and you deserve it : after a man has sustained for several years the government of St. Domingo, I apprehend he needs repose. I leave you at liberty to retire to which of your estates you please. I rely so much on the attachment you bear the colony of St Domingo, as to believe you will employ what moments of leisure you may have, during your retreat, in communicating to me your ideas respecting the means proper to be taken, to cause agriculture and commerce...
Página 29 - In an instant twelve hundred coffee and two hundred sugar plantations were in flames; the buildings, the machinery, the farm offices, reduced to ashes; the unfortunate proprietors hunted down, murdered or thrown into the flames by the infuriated negroes.
Página 130 - Assist with your counsel, your influence, and your talents, the Captain-General. What can you desire ? — the freedom of the blacks ? You know that in all the countries we have been in, we have given it to the people who had it not. Do you desire consideration, honours, fortune? It is not after the services you have rendered, the services you can still render, and with the personal estimation we have for you, that you ought to be doubtful with respect to your consideration, your fortune, and the...
Página 244 - Bent for many ages under an iron yoke, the sport of the passions or injustice of men, and of the caprices of fortune; mutilated victims of the cupidity of white Frenchmen; after having fattened by our toils, these insatiate blood-suckers, with a patience and resignation unexampled, we should again have seen that sacrilegious horde attempt our destruction, without any distinction of sex or age ; and we, whom they call men without energy, of no virtue, of...
Página 142 - Clerc ; he brings with him numerous forces for protecting you against your enemies, and against the enemies of the republic. If it be said to you, these forces are destined to ravish from you your liberty...
Página 239 - Their bones will repulse yours. And, ye invaluable men, intrepid generals, who, insensible to private sufferings, have given new life to liberty by lavishing your blood; know that you have done nothing unless you give to the nations a terrible though just example of the vengeance that ought to be exercised by a brave people who have recovered their liberty and are determined to maintain it. Let us intimidate those who would dare to attempt depriving us of it again; let us begin with the French; let...
Página 239 - ... to maintain it. Let us intimidate those who would dare to attempt depriving us of it again; let us begin with the French; let them shudder at approaching our shores, if not on account of the cruelties they have committed, at least at the terrible resolution we are about to make : to devote to death whatever native of France dares to soil this shore with his sacrilegious footstep. . . . Accursed be the French name — eternal hatred of France — such are our principles.
Página 245 - Similar calamities have hung over your proscribed heads, a similar ardour to strike your enemies has signalized you, the like fate is reserved for you, and the like interests must therefore render you for ever one, indivisible and inseparable. Maintain that precious concord, that happy harmony amongst yourselves; it is the pledge of your happiness, your salvation, and your success ; it is the secret of being invincible.
Página 127 - Domingo from the English yoke, and above all, from its own passions. They were, therefore, of opinion that the First Consul should leave Toussaint L'Ouverture at liberty still to call himself, if he so pleased, the first of the blacks...