One anecdote about this man tells how the pieces of his body were gathered up and buried by Dedee Bazile after he was ambushed and killed at the Red Bridge. After heading the Conference of Arcahaie, he ordered Catherine Flon to create the flag he adopted by sewing together red and blue strips from a previously desecrated flag. Also the builder of an eponymous capital city at Marchand, he had his greatest military success at Vertieres, where he helped defeat Rochambeau. His harsh rule and massacres of white settlers prompted the rebellion that led to his death and split his nation into a southern republic led by Alexandre Petion and a northern kingdom under Henri Christophe. FTP, identify this former slave who had himself crowned emperor of Haiti as Jacques I.
One anecdote about this man tells how the pieces of his body were gathered up and buried by Dedee Bazile after he was ambushed and killed at the Red Bridge. After heading the Conference of Arcahaie, he ordered Catherine Flon to create the flag he adopted by sewing together red and blue strips from a previously desecrated flag. Also the builder of an eponymous capital city at Marchand, he had his greatest military success at Vertieres, where he helped defeat Rochambeau. His harsh rule and massacres of white settlers prompted the rebellion that led to his death and split his nation into a southern republic led by Alexandre Petion and a northern kingdom under Henri Christophe. FTP, identify this former slave who had himself crowned emperor of Haiti as Jacques I.
One anecdote about this man tells how the pieces of his body were gathered up and buried by Dedee Bazile after he was ambushed and killed at the Red Bridge.
Jean-Jacques {Dessalines} (prompt on an early buzz of “Jacques I”)