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Auction: 24025 - Historical Documents Featuring the Major David Cecil Underwood Jr Collection of Royal Visits to India 1876-1906
Lot: 302

France
Toussaint Louverture, The Haitian Revolution
1795 (26 Feb.) autograph letter signed over two sides of paper regarding the movement of Camps Comeau, Moreau, Molen as well as details of garrisons. Archivally meshed to album page along edges, fine and rare, a most important document

Notes: Toussaint Louverture (20 May 1743 – 7 April 1803), Governor-General of Saint-Domingue (1797-1802), Governor of Santo Domingo (1801-1802). Louverture is best know for his role in the Haitian Revolution.

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