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Saint-Domingue expedition

Years: 1801 - 1803

The Saint-Domingue expedition is a French military expedition sent by Napoleon Bonaparte, then First Consul, under his brother-in-law Charles Victor Emmanuel Leclerc in an attempt to regain French control of the island of Saint-Domingue and curtail the measures of independence taken by the former slave Toussaint Louverture.

It lands in December 1801 and, after initial success, and ends in a French defeat at the battle of Vertières and the departure of French troops in December 1803.

“What experience and history teach is that nations and governments have never learned anything from history."

―Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel, Lectures (1803)