Battle of Vertières
1803 · Event
Decisive Haitian victory under Dessalines over French forces; opens the path to formal independence two months later.
On these timelines: The Haitian Revolution, Latin America, Master, France, Slavery & Abolition
More from The Haitian Revolution
- Haitian Revolution (1791)
- Haitian Declaration of Independence (1804)
- Boukman's Vodou ceremony at Bois Caïman (1791)
- Leclerc expedition to Saint-Domingue (1802)
- Arrest of Toussaint Louverture (1802)
- Napoleon restores slavery in the French colonies (1802)
- Sonthonax abolishes slavery in Saint-Domingue (1793)
- Haiti's independence ransom (1825)
Around 1803
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- Napoleon's rule of France (1799)
- Charles Darwin (1809)
- Jenner's smallpox vaccine (1796)
- Abraham Lincoln (1809)
- Napoleonic Wars (1803)
- Battle of Trafalgar (1805)
- Napoleon's invasion of Russia (1812)
- Pride and Prejudice (1813)
- Dissolution of the Holy Roman Empire (1806)