Haiti and Kenya independence · TURNING POINT ·
Creation of the Haitian flag (1803)
On the Haiti and Kenya independence map as “The flag at Arcahaie”
18 May 1803 — At a congress of the rebel generals, Dessalines tears the white out of the French tricolour. The blue and red, sewn by Catherine Flon by tradition, becomes the flag of the war for independence.
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- Napoleon’s Saint-Domingue expedition (chapter 4 of Haiti and Kenya independence)
- Atlas
- Two Roads to Independence: Haiti 1789–1838 and Kenya 1895–1978
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