
Appendix 11- Meet the New Boss
Revolutions
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A Brief History of the Haitian Revolution
In Haiti things obviously revolve around Tucson, Louverture. And where does he come from? Ah yes, just like the first three, he's a great military leader who was winning battles on the field. But eventually even those closest to him in the upper rungs of the Haitian military apparatus decided that what Louverture wanted was not necessarily what they wanted,. So they betrayed him and allowed him to be arrested by the French and he wound up dying in captivity. Simone Belivar is the only one of our group to actually assume the literal title of dictator. He spent a good five or six years as a dictator, calling the shots as he tried to mold his tricolor
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