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Type(s) de contenu et mode(s) de consultation : Texte noté. Image fixe : sans médiation
Auteur(s) : Girard, Philippe R.
Titre(s) : The slaves who defeated Napoleon [Texte imprimé] : Toussaint Louverture and the Haitian War of Independence, 1801-1804 / Philippe R. Girard
Publication : Tuscaloosa : The University of Alabama Press, c2011
Description matérielle : xii, 444 p. : ill. ; 25 cm
Collection : Atlantic crossings
Lien à la collection : Atlantic crossings
Comprend : The Black Napoleon: Louverture and the 1801 Constitution ; The White Toussaint: Bonaparte's
decision to invade Saint-Domingue ; Eve of a battle: planning the Leclerc expedition
; King of the Tropics: the Atlantic Crossing and the Moyse Uprising ; Parley: the
French landing ; Supply and demand: Leclerc's diplomacy with the United States, Cuba,
and Jamaica ; Ash and iron: the Spring campaign ; Lull: love, loot, labor, and Louverture's
exile ; Mal de Siam: the yellow fever epidemic ; Faux Pas: the maroon uprising ;
Revolt: the defection of the colonial army ; Reprieve: Rochambeau and the French
counteroffensive ; Unity is strength: dessalines and the unification of the rebel
army ; Echoes of Saint-Domingue: Louverture's captivity and the Louisiana Purchase
; New enemy, new partner: the British navy at war ; Sodom and Gomorrah: life in
besieged French towns ; Resolution: the rebel victory ; Liberty and death: Haitian
independence ; The long way home: French refugees and the Fall of Santo Domingo ;
Conclusion.
Note(s) : Includes bibliographical references and index
Sujet(s) : Toussaint Louverture (1743-1803)
Napoléon Ier (1769-1821 ; empereur des Français)
Haïti -- 1791-1804 (Révolution)
Identifiants, prix et caractéristiques : ISBN 9780817317324 (cloth) (alk. paper). - ISBN 0817317325 (cloth) (alk. paper). -
ISBN 9780817385408 (electronic). - ISBN 0817385401 (electronic)
Identifiant de la notice : ark:/12148/cb42680318b
Notice n° :
FRBNF42680318
(notice reprise d'un réservoir extérieur)
