Natives of Haiti! My happy fate was to be one day the sentinel who would ... Done at the headquarters of Gonaives, the first day of January 1804, the first year of independence. Today, January 1st ...
On January 1, 1804, Dessalines proclaimed himself ruler of the new nation, which was called Haiti, a "higher place." ...
This is not the first time that talk has turned to sending foreign troops to Haiti. Since their hard-fought independence from France in 1804, the Haitian people have seen their country’s ...