{"id":695,"count":1,"description":"Over two centuries ago an untrained army of self-liberated slaves and their unlikely allies shook up the world. Never before had slaves with no military training taken on and defeated the three military superpowers of the time.\r\n\r\nBut their victory galled historians. Ten years before General Winter aided the great Russian commander General Mikhail Kutuzov to defeat Napol\u00e9on Bonaparte\u2019s Grand Army, the Haitian Revolutionaries did it twice. The first significant defeat Napol\u00e9on suffered was not the Russian Campaign of 1812, it was Haiti almost a decade earlier.\r\n\r\nAnd this was no insignificant campaign, it was so vital to Bonaparte, he made peace with Britain to have it conducted. Haiti (then known as Saint-Dominigue) had been the jewel in France\u2019s colonial crown. It was vital to France\u2019s economic future. Napol\u00e9on wanted it back. It was an essential part of his strategy.\r\n","link":"https:\/\/fittedin.org\/fittedinwp\/category\/articles\/the-legacy-of-haitian-revolution\/","name":"The Legacy of Haitian Revolution","slug":"the-legacy-of-haitian-revolution","taxonomy":"category","parent":19,"meta":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/fittedin.org\/fittedinwp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories\/695"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/fittedin.org\/fittedinwp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/fittedin.org\/fittedinwp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/taxonomies\/category"}],"up":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fittedin.org\/fittedinwp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories\/19"}],"wp:post_type":[{"href":"https:\/\/fittedin.org\/fittedinwp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts?categories=695"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}