Lamour Desrances
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Lamour Desrances
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Lamour Desrances was a Haitian revolutionary leader. A former maroon, he was born in Africa and brought to Saint-Domingue as a slave. During the revolution, when local figures often gained power in control of small armed forces, Desrances became a local military leader in the mountains surrounding Port-au-Prince and Saint-Marc. At the time of the War of Knives, Desrances was loyal to André Rigaud in his battle with Toussaint Louverture, and was one of the few black officers in the predominantly
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Haitian revolutionary leader
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lamour_Desrances
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2023-09-04T04:29:30Z
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