Napoleon Part 6: Showdown at Waterloo
Real Dictators
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Anglo-French Conflicts in the Americas
In 1791 a slave revolt had broken out in the French colony of Saint-Domingue, present-day Haiti. Napoleon regained it by force, dragging L'Overture back to France where he would die in jail. The diminishing returns in the Caribbean have caused a rethink of French policy in the Americas.
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