Nord (English: North) is one of the ten departments (French: départements) of Haiti. English is a West Germanic language originating in England and is the First language for most people in the United Kingdom, the United States The Republic of Haiti is divided administratively into ten departments ( Département in French) French ( français,) is a Romance language spoken around the world by 118 million people as a native language and by about 180 to 260 million people In the Terminology of Political geography and Historiography a National department (département departamento is an administrative Haiti ( English: ˈheɪ·tiː or haɪ·ˈjiː·tiː French Haïti a·i·ti Haitian Creole: It has an area of 2,106 km² and a population of 872,200 (2002). Its capital is Cap-Haïtien. Cap-Haïtien ( Okap or Kapayisyen in Kréyòl) is a city of about 130000 people on the north coast of Haiti.
The department is divided into seven arrondissements:
- l'Acul-du-Nord
- Borgne
- le Cap-Haïtien
- Grand-Rivière du Nord
- le Limbé
- Plaissance
- Saint-Raphaël
History
In 1789 the Nord Department on the northern shore was the most fertile area with the largest sugar plantations. Borgne ( Creole: Obòy) is a town on the north coast of Haiti, west of Cap-Haïtien and northwest of Limbé, in Nord Department Cap-Haïtien ( Okap or Kapayisyen in Kréyòl) is a city of about 130000 people on the north coast of Haiti. It was an area of vast economic importance. Here most of the slaves lived in relative isolation, separated from the rest of the colony by a high mountain range known as the Massif. This area was a stronghold of the wealthy planters who wanted greater autonomy for the colony, especially economically, so they could do as they pleased. [1]
Although the slaves were not expected to participate in a rebellion, suddenly on August 22, 1791, a great slave uprising plunged the country into civil war. Events 392 - Arbogast has Eugenius elected Western Roman Emperor. Year 1791 ( MDCCXCI) was a Common year starting on Saturday (link will display the full calendar of the Gregorian calendar (or a Common Thousands of slaves in the fertile Nord Department region rose up to take vengeance on their masters and to fight for their liberty. Within the next ten days slaves had taken control of the entire northern province in an unprecedented slave revolt that left the whites controlling only a few isolated fortified camps. Within the next two months as the violence escalated, the rebelling slaves killed 2,000 whites and burned or destroyed 280 sugar plantations. [2] Within a year the island was in revolutionary chaos. Slaves burnt the plantations where they had been forced to work, and killed masters, overseers and other whites. Fundamentally a plantation is usually a large Farm or estate, especially in a tropical or semitropical country on which Cotton, Tobacco [1] This was the beginning of the Haitian Revolution. The Revolution (1791–1804 was the most successful of African Slave rebellions in the Western Hemisphere
In 1804, Haiti declared itself a free republic but civil war broke out in the north under the leadership of Henri Christophe. Henri Christophe ( October 6, 1767 – October 8, 1820) became a career officer and general in the military forces that became the Haïtian Army [1] Christophe declared the northern dominion a kingdom in 1811 and crowned himself King Henry I of Haiti. [3] In 1820, King Henry committed suicide after suffering a stroke that resulted in his lose control of the army and therefore his power. The kingdom was claimed by Jean Pierre Boyer, then the appointed president of Haiti, on October 26, 1820 after he captured Cap Haïtien by military force. Jean-Pierre Boyer (possibly February 15, 1776 &ndash July 9, 1850) a native of Saint-Domingue became a soldier one of the leaders in Events 740 - An Earthquake strikes Constantinople, causing much damage and death Year 1820 ( MDCCCXX) was a Leap year starting on Saturday (link will display the full calendar of the Gregorian calendar (or a Leap year Cap-Haïtien ( Okap or Kapayisyen in Kréyòl) is a city of about 130000 people on the north coast of Haiti. Haiti became a single nation again. [3]
Footnotes
- ^ a b c Knight, Franklin W. (1990). The Caribbean: The Genesis of a Fragmented Nationalism, 2nd, New York: Oxford University Press, pp 204-208. ISBN 0-19-505441-5.
- ^ Rogozinski, Jan (1999). A Brief History of the Caribbean, Revised, New York: Facts on File, Inc. , p. 167. ISBN 0-8160-3811-2.
- ^ a b haitian history. www. kreyol. com (2002). Retrieved on 2007-08-30. Year 2007 ( MMVII) was a Common year starting on Monday of the Gregorian calendar in the 21st century. Events 1363 - Beginning date of the Battle of Lake Poyang; the forces of two Chinese rebel leaders— Chen Youliang and
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