Alexandre Sabès Pétion (April 2, 1770 - March 29, 1818) was President of the southern Republic of Haiti from 1806 until his death. April 2 is the 92nd day of the year (93rd in leap years) in the Gregorian calendar, with 273 days remaining. ... Events March 5 - Boston Massacre: 5 Americans killed by British troops in an event that would help start the American Revolutionary War 5 years later. ... March 29 is the 88th day of the year in the Gregorian Calendar (89th in Leap years). ... 1818 is a common year starting on Thursday. ... Haiti is a country situated on the western third of the island of Hispaniola and the smaller islands of Gonâve, Tortue (Tortuga), Grande Caye, and Vache in the Caribbean Sea, east of Cuba; the Dominican Republic shares Hispaniola with Haiti. ...

Pétion was born in Port-au-Prince to a black mother and a French father. He was sent to France in 1788 to study at the Military Academy in Paris. He returned to take part in the expulsion of the British (1798-99). His mulatto heritage meant that when tensions arose between blacks and mulattoes he supported the mulatto faction. He allied with General André Rigaud and Jean Pierre Boyer against Toussaint L'Ouverture in the failed rebellion, the so-called War of Knives, which began in June 1799. By November the rebels were pushed back to the strategic southern port of Jacmel, the defence was commanded by Pétion. The town fell in March 1800 and the rebellion was effectively over. Pétion and other mulatto leaders went into exile in France. Categories: Caribbean geography stubs | Capitals in North America | Haiti ... France - Wikipedia /**/ @import /skins/monobook/IE50Fixes. ... Jean Pierre Boyer (possibly February 15, 1776 - June 9, 1850) was president of Haiti from 1822 until 1843. ... Jacmel is a city in southern Haïti. ...

He returned in February 1802 with Boyer, Rigaud and the 12,000 strong French army commanded by Charles Leclerc. Following the treacherous treatment of Toussaint and the renewed struggle he joined the nationalist force in October 1802 following a secret conference at Arcahale and supported Jean-Jacques Dessalines, the general who had captured Jacmel. The capital was taken on October 17, 1803 and independence was declared on January 1, 1804. Dessalines was made ruler for life and had himself crowned emperor on October 6, 1804. Charles Victor Emmanuel Leclerc (Pontoise Val-dOise, France 1772_Saint Domingue, November 1, 1802) was a French general and a companion of Napoleon I of France. ... Jean-Jacques Dessalines (September 20, 1758 - October 17, 1806) was a leader of the Haitian slave rebellion and an Emperor of Haiti (1804 - 1806 under the name of Jacques I). ...

Following the death of Dessalines in October 1806, Pétion championed democracy and clashed with Henri Christophe. Christophe was offered a democratic presidency, but this failed. The country divided between them and the tensons between the blacks and mulattoes were reignited. After the inconclusive struggle dragged on until 1810 a peace was agreed and the country was split in two. While Christophe made himself king, Pétion had himself elected President of the southern part of Haiti in 1806. Initially a supporter of democracy he found the constraints imposed on him by the senate onorous and suspended the legislature in 1818. In 1816 he turned his post into President for Life. Events January 8 - Cape Colony becomes a British colony January 10 - Dutch in Cape Town surrender to the British January 19 - The United Kingdom occupies the Cape of Good Hope February 6 - Royal Navy victory off Santo Domingo - see:Action of 6 February 1806 March 23 - After traveling through the... Henri Christophe (October 6, 1767 - October 8, 1820) was a liberated slave, who participated in the Haitian struggle for independence, eventually appointing himself king of the northern half of the country. ... 1810 was a common year starting on Monday (see link for calendar). ... 1818 is a common year starting on Thursday. ... Events March 25 - Friedrich Karl Ludwig, Duke of Schleswig-Holstein-Sonderburg-Beck dies and is succeeded by the later Friedrich Wilhelm, Duke of Schleswig-Holstein-Sonderburg-Glücksburg, his son and founder of the Schleswig-Holstein-Sonderburg-Glücksburg. ...

He was active in seizing the commercial plantations and divided the land thus gained amongst his supporters and the peasantry, earning himself the nickname Papa Bon-Kè ("good-hearted daddy"). The land grab dealt a serious blow to the economy of the country and most of the population did little more than subsistence farming. He started the Lycée Pétion in Port-au-Prince. He gave sanctuary to Simón Bolívar in 1815 and provided him with material support. Simón José Antonio de la Santísima Trinidad Bolívar y Palacios ( July 24, 1783 – December 17, 1830) was a South American revolutionary leader. ... 1815 was a common year starting on Sunday (see link for calendar). ...

Boyer was made the successor of Pétion and took control following the death of Pétion through yellow fever in 1818. Yellow fever (also called black vomit or sometimes The American Plague) is an acute viral disease. ...