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1805

1805: Dessalines invades the eastern part of the island to fulfill his resolve to destroy the last vestiges of European idols.

1805: Dessalines invades the eastern part of the island to fulfill his resolve to destroy the last vestiges of European idols. He aimed to unify the island under one government to secure the nation’s permanent defense.

Source Geggus, Haitian Revolutionary Studies, 27; Nicholls, From Dessalines to Duvalier, 35