Jean-Pierre Boyer

Jean -Pierre Boyer ( born February 28, 1776 in Port-au -Prince in the French colony of Saint -Domingue, † July 9, 1850 in Paris) was 1818-1843 President of the Republic of Haiti. Born as a mulatto, Boyer earned in France European education and entered 1792 in the military.

Soon promoted to battalion chief, he took in the invasion of the English in San Domingo in the activities of General André Rigaud share. Later he fought back under Rigaud against the blacks under François -Dominique Toussaint L' Ouverture, but had to leave the island with Rigaud and look refuge in France, from where he returned in 1802 with the expedition of General Charles Leclerc d' Ostin to Haiti. Here he fought back initially against the blacks, but then entered the compound of blacks and mulattoes to full liberation of the colony.

According to Jean -Jacques Dessalines ' accession to the throne itself Boyer presented with Alexandre Sabes Petion to the top of the colored people. Both helped the General Henri Christophe, the despot Dessalines overthrow in 1806, but left Christophe, as this target even after the rule.

Pétion founded in the southwestern part of the island became an independent republic, but Boyer was the commandant of the capital Port -au -Prince and the dignity of a major general. Victorious against the troops Christophe, who had converted in the north of Haiti, the Republic of blacks in Haiti a kingdom, he was recommended by the people dying Pétion on March 29, 1818 as the successor and unanimously elected as President of the Republic.

Boyer arranged finance, improved the administration and favored arts and sciences. After Christophe's death, he united in 1820, dominated by mulatto republic with the majority of blacks ruled in the north, took 1821 the eastern, Spanish territory remained in possession and obtained in 1825 the Declaration of Independence of the young state of France. Having been under constant fighting with the House of Representatives for 15 years at the head of the republic, he was overthrown in 1843 by an uprising of opposition party leaders and fled on March 13 on an English warship to Jamaica, where he formally abdicated. After a long stay on this island, he went to Paris, where he died.

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  • President (Haiti)
  • Haitian
  • Born in 1776
  • Died in 1850
  • Man
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