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Of the many celebrated, little known, or completely forgotten conflicts of the late 18 th  and early 19 th  centuries, the Haitian Revolution fought from 1791-1804 is one of the most culturally relevant conflicts. Currently the Haitian Revolution has garnered more attention from military and popular historians, which as a study as a revolt, rebellion and colonialist war nevertheless deserves more attention from historians. Luckily a resurgence in the study and historical interpretation of this period has occurred, with more many books written or currently being written on Napoleon’s ‘West Indian Policy’ and campaign within the context of the greater Haitian Revolution period from the Haitian/Caribbean perspective. Soldier & Haitian patriot, François-Dominique Toussaint Louverture As a French colony, Saint Domingue what is today the nation of  Haiti,  and the greater  island  of  Hispaniola in general , split in half by the Spanish and French in the early colonial period-had been un