Léger-Félicité Sonthonax
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Léger-Félicité Sonthonax was a French politician and colonial administrator. He was a Jacobin before joining the Girondins, which emerged in 1791. During the Haitian Revolution, he controlled 7,000 Fr
Late 18th-century oil painting portrait of Sonthonax
Donatien de Rochambeau
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Divisional-General Donatien-Marie-Joseph de Vimeur, vicomte de Rochambeau was a French Army officer and colonial administrator who served in the American Revolutionary War and French Revolutionary and
Léger-Félicité Sonthonax
…worked against the commissioners and became popular with the royalist planters. On 21 October 1792, the commissioners dismissed d'Esparbès and named the vicomte de Rochambeau governor general of Saint-Domingue. Their main goal was to maintain French control of Saint-Domingue and enforce the social equality recently granted…
Portrait of Rochambeau
Illustration of Rochambeau during the Saint-Domingue expedition