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IN the Moniteur, official organ of the Republic of Haiti, for September 4, 1915, in a column headed "Liberty, Equality, Fraternity," the president of Haiti published a proclamation on the situation arising from the occupation by American troops of the customs-house at Port-au-Prince. Haitians! At the very moment when the Government, engaged in
miles to the southwest of it; so that it is placed, as it were, right in the center of the four great Antilles, of which it is one and the next in size after Cuba. It is, besides, within 600 miles of the northern coast of South America, and to the north of it, not far away, are Inagua, Turk's, and other smaller islands. It lies be- tween 17** 37' a
The book W. Cameron Forbes and the Hoover Commissions to Haiti, by Robert Melvin Spector expresses that Michel Domingue was chosen on June 11, 1874 for a term of eight years. In November of that year, Haiti and the Dominican Republic marked a kinship arrangement. History specialist Dantes Bellegarde keeps up that Domingue's nephew Septimus Rameau w
March 19, 1870 Mr. Nissage Saget was voted president of Haiti by a Constitutional Assembly. As per data found on Rootweb, Saget, was the child of Polymene Dessalines, a sister of one of Haiti's establishing fathers, Jean-Jacques Dessalines. The book Haiti and Her Detractors by Jacques Nicolas Leger relates that Haiti was conflicting with
Haiti's future president Cincinnatus Leconte was an establishing part of Le Chemin de Fer du Nord, a railroad organization that dispatched in Cap Haitien in 1899. Pean affirms that business visionary Nemours Auguste had a go at something comparable a couple of years prior, supported by French financial speculators. Be that as it may men like
President Cincinnatus Leconte (above) was an establishing parts of La Ligue Contre le Vaudou, a hostile to Vodou class, established in 1896 in Cap Haitien. [image Credit: Marc Pean's book] The League had its own particular daily paper, as indicated by Pean, which made its introduction on the Haiti's daily paper distributed market on March 14,
president Cincinnatus Leconte (above) was an establishing parts of La Ligue Contre le Vaudou, a hostile to Vodou class, established in 1896 in Cap Haitien. [image Credit: Marc Pean's book] The League had its own particular daily paper, as indicated by Pean, which made its introduction on the Haiti's daily paper distributed market on March 14,
The year 1891 (month: January), saw the conception of Cleanthe Desgraves, who in the year 1929, would turn into one of Haiti's first known female authors with the distribution of her book Cruelle Destinée [cruel Destiny]. In 1891, Antenor Firmin distributed his book Haïti et la France [haiti and France], which chronicled the provincial and strategi
The 1890s started with Florvil Hyppolite as Haiti's leader (being a Haitian, his name was really Louis Mondestin Florvil Hyppolite). As per the book Haiti and Her Detractors, Haiti's Constituent Assembly had met in the city of Gonaives September 24, 1889 and on October ninth, they chose Mr. Hyppolite to the administration for a time of seven years.
As indicated by a few history specialists and sources, Navassa Island at one point was a Haitian domain. The island was called Le Navaze in French, as indicated by the volume British and Foreign State Papers (1889). In his book Haiti, Her History And Her Detractors, Jacques Nicolas Leger composes that amid the rule of Haiti's Emperor Faustin