Translation:Aurora de Chile/28/Haiti, or Isle of S. Domingo.
| Hayti,[1] ó Isla de S. Domingo.[2] | Haiti, or Isle of S. Domingo.[2] |
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| EL Emperador Cristobal[3] se preparaba en Enero para atacar à Porto-Principe,[4] cuya plaza se habia puesto en buen estado de defensa. Petion[5] no tenia buques de guerra, pero habia fortificado perfectamente toda la costa. La armada de Cristobal estaba repartida en sus varios puertos. Há establecido el papel moneda, y los que rehusan su uso son catigados severamente, algunos han sido ahorcados por esto. | THE Emperor Christophe[3] prepared himself in January to attack Port-au-Prince, whose square had been put in a good state of defense. Petion[5] had no warships, but he had fortified perfectly all of the coast. The armada of Cristophe was spread out in its various ports. It has established paper currency, and those that refuse its use are punished severely, some have been hanged for this. |
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- ↑ "Haití"
- ↑ 2.0 2.1 Though uncommon now, it would have been acceptable at the time to have referred to the whole island of Hispaniola as Santo Domingo (the Spanish colony in the eastern 2/3 of the island, and the name of its capital), Saint-Domingue (the name of the former French colony), or Haiti (the independent state formed from Saint-Domingue, also thought to have been the Taíno native name for the island).
- ↑ 3.0 3.1 The Haitian revolutionary Henri Cristophe, who was made emperor in 1811, was actually styled Emperor Henri I of Haiti, but here his surname is used as a regnal name instead.
- ↑ Port-au-Prince, the current capital of Haiti, was the capital of Petion's southern republic at the time.
- ↑ 5.0 5.1 Alexandre Pétion was the president of the Republic of Haiti. At the time, Haiti existed as two antagonistic states, Henri's Kingdom of Haiti in the north, and Pétion's Republic of Haiti in the south. They broke apart after Jean-Jacques Dessalines (Emperor Jacques I's) death in 1806, and Haiti would be reunified after Henri's death in 1820.