The Haitian Revolution
In Our Time: History
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The Revolutionary Wars in Europe and Americas
When the French king is killed in 1793, obviously the Revolutionary Wars begin in Europe. This becomes a kind of global imperial war and it's happening on various fronts. And one of those fronts is the Americas as it happened throughout the 18th century. So this is well established in terms of warfare that's ongoing to Britain and France during this period. But they both get involved in Sandal Mag, but they do it in different ways. The Spanish try to form an alliance with the Black Revolutionary armies which have grown up led by some of the major legions of the revolution since 1791. People like Jean-Francois and people like Toussaint Louverture who appears during
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