1807-Jan.-14
1807-Jan.-14: Henry Christophe issued a formal proclamation to the people of Haiti from his stronghold in the North.
1807-Jan.-14: Henry Christophe issued a formal proclamation to the people of Haiti from his stronghold in the North. He asserted his leadership following the assassination of Dessalines and initiated the political division that defined the early nineteenth-century republic.
Source · p. 154
Gaffield, Haitian Connections in the Atlantic World, 154