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A peasant uprising culiminated in the storming of bastille, the armory- prison that had become a symbol of the tyranny of the ancient place -
The Haitian Revolution has often been described as the largest and most successful slave rebellion in the Western Hemisphere. Slaves initiated the rebellion in 1791 and by 1803 they had succeeded in ending not just slavery but French control over the colony. -
Put simply, the Haitian Revolution, a series of conflicts between 1791 and 1804, was the overthrow of the French regime in Haiti by the Africans and their descendants who had been enslaved by the French and the establishment of an independent country founded and governed by former slaves. -
In September 1793, terror was transformed into official government policy, and extreme measures were adopted to implement radical economic and social programs. -
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. -
With popular support behind him, Napoleon proclaimed himself as emperor of the french -
Bolivar favored independence, and in 1810 he joined s revolutionary group that expelled the spanish governor from venezuela in 1811 -
In 1811, Venezuela declared its independence, and early the following year Miranda became head of the revolutionary government. The rebel Congress eventually granted him dictatorial powers. Bolívar won an important battle at Valencia, an engagement that earned him the loyalty and admiration of his men. A split developed in the revolutionary leadership, however. Miranda gained Bolívar's resentment when he signed an armistice with Spain. Bolívar then delivered Miranda to the Spanish. -
To the Inquisition, he renounced all of his previous heresies. The courts nevertheless defrocked him and sentenced him to death by firing squad. Hidalgo died on -
who did him the honor of desiring his opinion upon the important transactions which then, and ever since, have so much occupied the attention of all men. . . .