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# Haitian Independence
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The Mongols Dined Atop their Live Enemies and Other Fascinating Historic Facts
Did you know that the Mongols once celebrated a victory by feasting atop the living bodies of their slowly suffocating defeated foes? Or that Canada was once terrorized by a radical Russian…
People
The Bloody History of the Haitian Revolution in 10 Events
From 1791 to 1804, the French colony of Saint Domingue, today's Haiti, saw a multisided and violent struggle for power…
American History
Breaking the Chains: 9 Pivotal Slave Rebellions From Ancient Times to the 19th Century
The institution of slavery is as old as civilization itself. Wherever and whenever people have been kept in bondage some…
Civil War
This Day In History: News that Haiti Declared Independence Begins to Spread (1804)
This day in history news reaches the outside world of the Haitian declaration of Independence. This declaration was a result…