THE DAY IN HISTORY · NOVEMBER 18
November 18 in history
What happened on November 18: 2 moments from the Maps of History atlases, in 1803 and 1877, each linked to the map that shows it.
— Battle of Vertières
18 Nov 1803 — Dessalines’ army storms the last French positions above Cap-Français. Six weeks later, Haiti declares independence.
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— Battle of Kars
17–18 Nov 1877 — The reformed army takes the great Ottoman fortress by night assault. The war of 1877–78 shows what universal service has bought, and the Congress of Berlin, where the great powers rewrote Russia’s peace with the Ottomans, shows its limits: Russia keeps Kars, Batum and southern Bessarabia but loses most of the Balkan settlement it fought for.
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