toussaint l'overture comic
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- Toussaint L'Overture was born onMay 20, 1743
- yassss
- look at our sweet baby boy. Let's name him Toussaint. Toussaint L'Overture <3
- Toussaint learned to read and write and read every book he could get his hands on. He particularly admired the writings of the French Enlightenment philosophers
- man I'm only like five but I love reading and writing so much
- In 1789 the French Revolution rocked France. People were fighting and everything was in chaos. Toussaint joined the rebellion early on as a general but did not become the leader of the slave rebellion until 1798 at the age of 55.
- LETS FIGHT!!!!!
- wooo go toussaint!
- There was jubilation among the blacks in Haiti, and Toussaint agreed to help the French army eject the British and Spanish. Toussaint proved to be a brilliant general, winning 7 battles in 7 days. He became a de facto governor of the colony.
- *clap clap clap clap*
- By 1803 Napoleon was ready to get Haiti off his back: he and Toussaint agreed to terms of peace. Napoleon agreed to recognize Haitian independence and Toussaint agreed to retire from public life.
- peace.
- Napoleon ordered that Toussaint be placed in a prison dungeon in the mountains, and murdered by means of cold, starvation, and neglect. Toussaint died in prison, but others carried on the fight for freedom.
- *dead*
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