- Étienne
Polverel (1740–1795) was a
French lawyer, aristocrat, and revolutionary. He was a
member of the
Jacobin club. In 1792, he and Léger Félicité Sonthonax...
- His
official title was
Civil Commissioner. From
September 1792, he and
Polverel became the de
facto rulers of Saint-Domingue's non-slave po****tion. Because...
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western and
southern regions,
Polverel abolished slavery there as well on 31 October.
Although Sonthonax and
Polverel were both abolitionists, they had...
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citizenship to all free
coloureds and
sending two commissioners,
Sonthonax and
Polvérel, and 6,000
troops to Saint-Domingue to
enforce the decree. On
arrival in...
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actions of the
former governor of Saint-Domingue
Sonthonax and Étienne
Polverel, who
initially had
freed slaves in Haïti, but then
proposed arming them...
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During the
Estates General of 1789, the
Estates of
Navarre sent Étienne
Polverel to
Paris to
defend the
idiosyncrasy and
independence of
Navarre in the...
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separately or in combination, the
French commissioners Sonthonax and Étienne
Polverel offered freedom to the
slaves who
would agree to
fight alongside them....
- 1792 with the
civil commissioners Léger-Félicité
Sonthonax and Étienne
Polverel as lieutenant-colonel in
command of a
detachment of 200 men of the 16th...
- to ally
himself with the
French Republican commissioners Sonthonax and
Polverel. He
helped to lead
forces that
recaptured Cap-Français on
behalf of the...
- On 17
September 1792, the
commissars Léger-Félicité Sonthonax, Étienne
Polverel and Jean-Antoine
Ailhaud landed in Cap-Français with 6,000 men from the...
