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Events on Friday 18 November 1803 1
1803Battle of VertieresDecisive victory in the Haitian RevolutionHaitian revolutionary forces under Jean-Jacques Dessalines defeated the remaining French expeditionary army near Cap-Haitien. The victory ended French attempts to retake the colony and cleared the way for Haitian independence, declared on 1 January 1804. It marked the culmination of the only slave revolt in history to produce an independent nation.