
The Napoleonic Wars: everything you wanted to know
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Did the French Revolution Overrule Slavery?
Napoleon wanted to restore an empire in the americas after his failure in egypt. He saw haite as absolatly essential to this, ecause hati was one of the world's most prosperous producers of coffee and sugar - which is based on slavery. So in 18 o two, he makes the decision, fatal decision, to try to restore slavery. Sent an army out there under his brother in law, le clerc, and they were defeated. But elsewhere, slavery was reintroduced in the french empire,. In the other french caribean colonies, for example, as guadalupin d a maltani. The tehatians joined the french and help fight
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