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First-Year Seminar Lecture Series 2009 Nicole Vaget Reverend Joseph Paradis Professor of French Connecting American, French, and Haitian Revolutions. 1776: American Revolution people’s victory over British colonial rules 1789: French Revolution people’s victory over absolute monarchy - PowerPoint PPT PresentationTRANSCRIPT
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First-Year Seminar Lecture Series 2009
Nicole VagetReverend Joseph Paradis Professor of French
Connecting American, French, and Haitian Revolutions
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1776: American Revolutionpeople’s victory over British colonial rules
1789: French Revolutionpeople’s victory over absolute monarchy
1804: Haitian RevolutionAfrican slaves’victory over French colonial rules
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Lettres de Tourville (1777 - 1783)officier au régiment du Gatinais au Cap à son père, lieutenant-colonel d’infanterie
Bibliothèque Nationale, Paris FR Nouvelles Acquisitions 15766Mélanges littéraires et historiques XVIIIème siècleF.68-143
Charles Bertin Gaston Chapuis de Tourville (1740-1809) was made colonel of his regiment Royal-Auvergne in 1791, and became divisional general during the French revolution
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Detail of the Siege of Yorktown by Louis-Nicholas van Blarenberghe
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Franklin reception at the court of France, 1778
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Marquis De Lafayette with his commander in chief,General George Washington, at Valley Forge (1777-78)
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Washington welcomes le comte de Rochambeau in 1780
Soissonnais
regiment
Boubonnais regiment
Saintonge regiment
Royal Deux-Ponts regiment
Flags of 4 line regiments that landed with Rochambeau at Newport in 1780 and participated in the Yorktown campaign
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French battleships at the battle of the Virginia Capes, September 1781 La ville de Paris, flagship of De Grasse
L’Auguste, flagship of De Bougainville
François Joseph Paul De Grasse (1722-1788)
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Yorktown
Chesapeak bay
James riverFrench Fleet
British Fleet
Virginia coast and Chesapeake bay
General Washington hears that admiral De Grasse's fleet has just arrived in the Chesapeake Bay.
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French fleet of admiral De Grasse off the coast of Virginia
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Overview of the battle of Yorktown by Siméon Fort
la Fayette’s troups
Rochambeau’s troups
Cornwallis’ camp
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Soldier in Tourville’s regiment du Gâtinais
from left to right- well organized French regiments- French artillery- American artillery- American regiments- American infantry and militia with la Fayette
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French regiments executing their night attack against British Redoubt 9 on October 14, 1781
2 French regiments stormed British Redoubt 9
Royal Deux-Ponts and Gâtinais
painting by Onfroy de Breville -circa 1900
from a contemporary graphic novel by Gérald Forton
For its show of skill and heroism, fleurs de lys, insignia of the French king, were added to the flag of the Gatinais regiment and renamed Royal Auvergne
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Washington
Cornwallis’ representative
LaFayetteRochambeau
Surrender of the British at Yorktown by John Trumbull
De Grasse
other French officers
Major General Ben Lincoln
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The French part of Saint Domingue, later called Haïti
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The mulatto girl (1764)by Agostino Brunias
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City map of Cap-Français on the Island of Saint-Domingue, 1779
Slave trade in the 18th Century
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Marie-Josephe Rose Tascher De La Pagerie aristocrat and creole from Martiniquemarried to Napoleon Bonaparte
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Soldier and runaway slaveby John Gabriel Stedman
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An indigo plantation in Saint-Domingue in the 18th Century from L’Encyclopédie by Diderot and D’Alembert
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French troups storming the hideout of runaway slaves
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Toussaint L’ouvertureleader of the Haitian revolution
“the slave who defeated Napoléon”
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Cap Français burning on June 21, 1793
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1794 the 1st French republic abolishes slavery
In 1793, Jean-Baptiste Belley, a former slave, is the first black deputy to take a seat in the National Convention in Paris
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The national coat of arms of Haiti is composed of two cannons,a palm tree with the French Revolution liberty cap on top,and the watch word Union makes might.