Re-establishing a colonial legion in Saint-Domingue. Netherlands This assertion of local legislative

This assertion of local legislative sovereignty marked a key moment in the colony’s political rupture with France—an early signal of the constitutional conflicts that would soon escalate during the Haitian Revolution

Churchill at the Black Swan in Pater-Noster-Row

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Still Life with Flowers and Fruit

Re-establishing a colonial legion in Saint-Domingue. Netherlands This assertion of local legislativeOrdonnance du Roi, portant cration d'une Lgion pour l'le de Saint Domingue. Du 1er. avril 1766. Paris, De l'Imprimerie royale, 1766. 4, 16 pp. Royal ordinance issued under Louis XV re establishing a colonial legion in Saint Domingue, composed of 54 companies of 100 men each (c. 5,400 troops), intended for local defence and internal security; the corps had first been created on 15 January 1765 and suppressed in September of the same year, making this