Léogâne is the name of both a coastal city and an arrondissement in Ouest Department, Haïti. An arrondissement is an Administrative division in some French or Dutch -speaking countries Ouest (West Lwès is one of the ten departments ( French: Départements ' of Haiti. Haiti ( English: ˈheɪ·tiː or haɪ·ˈjiː·tiː French Haïti a·i·ti Haitian Creole: The city of Léogâne is located at around . The arrondissement of Léogâne contains three communes: Petit-Goâve, Grand-Goâve, and the city of Léogâne. A township (or Municipality) is a settlement which has the status and powers of a unit of local government The port town is located about 29 km (18 miles) West of the Haitian capital Port-au-Prince. PortAuPrinceTapTapjpg|right|thumb|270px|A taptap (shared taxi in central Port-au-Prince Léogâne is the birthplace of the Taíno queen Anacaona (the town was originally called the Amerindian name Yaguana and the city's name is a corruption of that) and of Marie-Claire Heureuse Félicité, the wife of the Haitian revolutionary Jean-Jacques Dessalines (1758). The Taínos were pre-Columbian inhabitants of the Bahamas, Greater Antilles, and the northern Lesser Antilles. Anacaona, (date of birth unknown - died about 1504 Hispaniola) also called the Golden Flower was a Taíno queen sister of Behechio and wife of Caonabo two of For indigenous peoples in the United States other than Hawaii and Alaska see also Native Americans in the United States. Jean-Jacques Dessalines ( September 20, 1758 – 17 October 1806 was a leader of the Haitian Revolution and the first ruler of an independent Year 1758 ( MDCCLVIII) was a Common year starting on Sunday (link will display the full calendar of the Gregorian calendar (or a Common
Charlemagne Péralte
Charlemagne Péralte, the leader of the Haitian resistance to the U. Charlemagne Masséna Péralte (1886 - 1919 was a Haitian Nationalist leader who opposed the US Invasion of his country in 1915 S. occupation that had started in 1915, had been a military officer stationed in Léogâne. He resigned from the military, refusing to surrender to the U. S. troops without a fight. Afterwards he returned to his native town of Hinche and began leading the Cacos against the occupation forces. Hinche ( Ench in Kréyòl) is a city in central Haiti, near the border with the Dominican Republic.
References
- Leogane. The Columbia Gazetteer of North America, edited by Saul B. Cohen. New York: Columbia University Press, 2000. (Accessed on 6/21/2006)
- The Louverture Project Wiki
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