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| | Boyer, Jean Pierre - HighBeam Encyclopedia (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-02) |
 | | Boyer, Jean Pierre, 1776-1850, president of Haiti (1818-43). |
 | | A free mulatto, he fought under Toussaint L'Ouverture and then joined André Rigaud, also a mulatto, in the latter's abortive insurrection against Toussaint. |
 | | He united N and S Haiti after the suicide of Henri Christophe (1820), and in 1822, taking advantage of the weakness of Spanish Santo Domingo, he took control of the whole island. |
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