Haiti King Henry Christophe: His Story
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The rise and fall of Henri Christophe, King of Haiti Part 2.
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OMG.. Even growin up in Jamaica, Haitian history was not taught and we're so close. This needs to be taught in schools. Our children need to know this history. Shout out to my Haitian cousins!
15 Jamaicans set themselves free in 1817 by commandeering their master’s ship, and directed it towards the Haitian port. Once they landed, they were forever free, even with the British threatening the government
That's interesting where did you find out that information ?
I was born in Guyana, we had Caribbean history and Haiti's history was profoundly taught. I read my first book on tha Haitian Revolution at 12. I have never stopped being proud of Haiti. My Dad who is Grenadian, always taught my many siblings about Henry Cristophe. One of my first cousins in Grenada is named after him.
In 1804 among the 40,000 British soldiers were 1000 Jamaicans, the Haitians, the creators of Guerilla Warfare (using EVERTHING as a weapon) fiercely slaughtered 30,000. 300 Jamaicans survived, the British burned a boat full of 300 Jamaicans, so they couldn't go back and tell what fierce fighters the Haitians under Jean Jacques Dessalines were.
That's interesting, where did find out this information? As an American with Haitian ancestry I'm always interested in learning my history.
Henri Christophe was an Afro Caribbean immigrant from the Colony of Grenada, British West Indies. Naturally, Henri favored England because he was a British West Indian and an Anglophile.
@ Abraham:: TRUE!!!
Wrong France ceded Grenada to the British in 1763 after more than 100 years of French occupation.that being said Christophe was always an francophone and probably moved to St Domingue with his family when Grenada changed hands.( there is debate concerning his date of birth which is most likely 1757)as a matter of he fought in savanah in the Chasseurs volontaires de StDomingue under Charles Henri comte d’Estaing.the alliance with England is more strategic than cultural as a matter of fact the British never forgave the French role in the revolutionary wars that cost them their colonies and from then in did everything they could to annoy the French including blockading st Domingue and directly helping rebels in Haiti
Yes, Henry Christophe was Grenadian.
@@jamescarel5520 no he wasnt wrong
@@dariusgreysun what’s your version?y
This is awesome. I found it to be very informative. Great work!
Thank you.
Great history video!!! Could easily use this in schools.
Super nice
This has potential to make a great movie
Love it
Too sad. He committed suicide because his people turned against him after he became paralyzed.
fantastic 👏🏽thank you!!!
A teenaged Henri Christophe served as a drummer boy in the French Chasseurs Volontaires, a unit of mostly free black soldiers from St Domingue (Haiti) that fought on the side of the Americans during the American Revolution, during the crucial Siege of Savannah Georgia. The statue of a black drummer boy in a monument erected in Savannah to commemorate the Chasseurs is believed tp represent Christophe.
you learn something new everyday ,sa ka fete from Dominican /jamaican in uk
Brilliant videos! As part of ongoing research into the Christophe regime, I'm hoping to also work on a virtual restoration of Sans-Souci Palace.
Wishing you well with your project. And thank you.
Just be sure to find me on any social media and tag me .
@@regisj6 she died
Interessant
Christophe was born in the spice island of Grenada
I didn't know this part of Haiti history.
Are you going to make more videos on Haitian history.
She's no longer with us R.I.P angel
Verry nice
Thanks for watching!
Henry Christophe had the right concepts and ideas he just did it the wrong way. If his dynasty had survived, Haiti works be at least a middle income country rn and def stable
GR8 report, thumbs-up!
Good job, could you list some sources for the pictures? I haven't seen some of these
The sources are at the end of the video. The illustrations of the queen and the princesses...I had sketched based on descriptions I read of them.
is that Mariane Charlotte Leoncia Legros or Eléonore Cheruxi Richeux de Laroche Asnière on your profile ?
@@christthomas3204 yes, indeed
@@christthomas3204 yes, indeed
@@MsFrancois1 it all makes sense! If am not mistaken she was the goddaughter of Queen Marie Louise Coidavid!
Haiti number 1
What don’t you document about another Hero to avoid repetitions?
I love my home
VERY GOOD HISTORY HAITI IS A DIAMONT❤💪
It seems lack of knowledge and also of humanity because the miserable savage murderers Dessalines and Christophe cannot be admired by any human being by committing totally racist murders against white children, women and men and with great cruelty or Is it that white people don't matter to you? Read so you know the truth, if that interests you:
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1804_Haiti_massacre
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Massacre_of_Moca,_Santo_Domingo
One of the portraits of Henry Christophe in the video is by an Italian artist who never saw the king and was was mocking him . This would be more apparent in a larger image. There is usuful information here, the result of much research; but there are also some inaccuracies and misleading statements.. Incidentally the name of the palace is pronounced with a soft "c", and the King's name was given the English pronunciation as well as English spelling. Henry is almost always said to be illiterate, but observers of the time wrote that he did some reading, especially of history and could write, though he preferred to dictate, which he did in flawless French. He also spoke Kreyol fluently and could " get along" in English. There is much conflicting information about this controversial figure including in the early documentations. One stunning inaccuracy is about the fortune said to be in England. It is documented that the queen did have sustaining resources, but also that she sold her jewels in order to meet expenses. There is some interesting new scholarship resulting from recent discovereis of documents by both Haitian and British historians.
I would love to learn more about Christophe. Do you have any links
Dapwe istwa king u rwaHenri li posib put Haiti pwan direksyon vwe chemen delivwans li su tab là.
That's my ancestor!
How do you know? I would say that's cool but this asshole and traitor assassinated our liberator
What’s your last name? He’s my Great Great Great Great Grand father my last name Thomas
@@IzaiahT31 my last name is Leconte, his uncle was the president of Haiti who also had that last nane
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He snitched on slaves? Wow. That's why the spirits did not protect him.
Always thinking you are kings.....
I’m so disappointed! After finding this page and googling her. She passed away 2 years ago.
Are you saying the woman whom owns this page has passed away?
@@stannisbaratheon3356 Yes
@@ingridfrancetravels that's horrible. RIP queen
That was the down fall allowing the Whiteman and his God back
Yes that their so wicked god that has been wrecking havoc till date
Dessalines knew the nature of the White people and how to deal with them in a manner they could understand. They signed their death warrant by assassinating Dessalines.
Could have SHOULD have = history
Vive Ayiti!
Henry Christopher and petion plot assassination of jean jacgues dessalines .slapping a Catholic priest .
Why didn't the king and queen live together
Napoleon tried to confiscate Haiti but failed due to Yellow Fever invading their ranks of which Haitian people were basically immune. This caused the French to lose so many soldiers that they left the Island after Henri attacked their remaining forces.
Christophe was a brilliant man but unfortunately allowed himself to treat his people too severely which led to his downfall.
Not just to yellow fever. The French army fought and lost. The two armies clashed, the last battle was the Battle of the Vertieres. The French army had no chance in the face of a population 10 times larger who wanted to live free or die. it's deforming history to assign the defeat of the French army to only to the Yellow fever.
@@nimbud Depends on who wrote the history book.
Lies...don't blame their defeat at the time to disease.
I am disappointed that Henri Christophe enslaved his own people to build his monumental palaces and fortress.
That is not true.
@@roctv100 yes it is.
@@rubix187 Not everything said in this video is fully true. Henery established a feudalism and share cropping system where a percentage if profit would go to state and the worker were paid a small amount from this. This was necessary for Haiti government to gain profit at the time. Christophe was way too harsh with the people but growing crops was vital increase the economy. Hatain felt enslave again having to work in the feilds again. But they said the same thing for Toussaint when he forced them back to work on the feild.
Believe the lies if you will. Just know the French knew not to F with this man. You think the Europeans had more morality than he did.
The real king of haiti
Whp was from Granada. Who treated the haitians harshly. Who died from his foolish mistakes.
Great job glorifying him lol
Your history doesn't mean shit if you ain't got nothing to show for it
Well, you sure as shit ain’t talking about Haitians, because we have a lot to show for it. Would you say that about Egypt.....
@@capoislamort100 you don't have shit so
@@1stindependentfreeblack675 that’s your opinion, you got this username and yet you don’t know nothing about history. So quick to judge shit that you don’t understand!
@@1stindependentfreeblack675 your mind is in chains if you stand behind this statement and I am not even Haitian. Every Black Citizen of the Americas who wakes up free has Haiti to thank. Haitian soldiers were trained and assisted in battles during the civil-war in the united states.
SMH! Made him look like somewhat of a traitor. Why snitch on the BLACKS, Henry?
I know, but you must understand that if Henri Christophe hadn't done anything about the Haitians in the south of Haiti and slaves in Jamaica, he most likely would've been jailed and/or killed, so Christophe had to do whatever it took to survive and thrive.
@@abrahamisaacmuciusiii9192 wrong,... he had to do anything to not dirty his soul for hell.
Instead he choose to hold on to this finite earthly life...over the infinte afterlife of pure bliss & zero sadness heaven realm.
Hell awaits all humans who punk out to the devil. Fact.
i hate this granadian who plotted with Petion to kill Dessalines
He was Haitian
He is our ancestor noun man was in Jamaica first doesn’t make him any less Haitian
To understand what I’m saying Is to understand what a Haitian is
They all betrayed Toussaint so whats your point.
@@stanleydouge2803 false...he was from Granada
I am haitian american had now clue about him in detail like this. I did know about the citadel but not the other stuff.
When did you come to North America or were you born there
@@Superbatmanbro born here
@@wordsareweapons nice 👍
Me neither
We have so many fond memories of Haiti but what is going on in Haiti now is nauseous. However, not everyone thinks Haiti is Hell and that sentiment would not just be limited to Graham Greene were he alive. Of course, Graham was one of the great writers of the 20th Century. One other ex-spook used to love Haiti until the TonTon Macoute hunted him down like a wild animal. If you relish and yearn for Haitian spy thrillers as curiously and bizarrely compelling as Graham Greene’s Comedians, yearn for the cruel stability of the Duvaliers and have frequented Hôtel Oloffson you're never going to put down Bill Fairclough's fact based spy thriller Beyond Enkription in The Burlington Files series. It's a raw noir thriller but it is so real you may have nightmares of being back in Port au Prince anguishing over being a spy on the run. The trouble is, if you were a spook being chased by the TonTon Macoute in the seventies you were usually cornered and ... well best leave it to your imagination or simply read Beyond Enkription. It’s considered compulsory reading for espionage aficionados.
See theburlingtonfiles.org and if you have any questions remember the best quote from The Burlington Files to date is "Don't ask me, I'm British" but do read The Comedians first if you have not done so recently.