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Alejandro Petion
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1st President of the Republic of Haiti (1770-1818)
Key facts
- Preceded by
- Jacques I (as Emperor of Haiti) Henri Christophe (as President of the State of Haiti)
- Succeeded by
- Jean-Pierre Boyer
- Born
- Anne Alexandre Sabès , ( 1770-04-02 ) 2 April 1770, Port-au-Prince , Saint-Domingue
- Died
- 29 March 1818 (1818-03-29) (aged 47), Port-au-Prince , Haiti
- Spouse
- Marie-Madeleine Lachenais
- Allegiance
- French First Republic , First Empire of Haiti , Republic of Haiti
- Branch
- French Revolutionary Army , Indigenous Army , Haitian Army
- Service years
- 1791–1803
- Rank
- General
- Conflicts
- Haitian Revolution
via Wikipedia infobox
Wikidata facts
- Instance of
- human
- Given name
- Alexandre
- Gender
- male
- Citizenship
- Haiti
- Place of birth
- Port-au-Prince
- Place of death
- Port-au-Prince
- Occupation
- military personnel
- Position held
- President of Haiti
- Languages spoken
- Haitian Creole
- Conflict
- Haitian Revolution
- Military branch
- French Revolutionary Army
- Military rank
- divisional general
- Image
- Alexandre Sabés Pétion Portrait circa 1807-1818 JCB.jpg
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- date of birth
- 1770-04-02
- date of death
- 1818-03-29
- Commons category
- Alexandre Pétion
- cause of death
- yellow fever
- manner of death
- natural causes
- name in native language
- Aleksann Petyon
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Encyclopedic overview
Alexandre Sabès Pétion ( French pronunciation: [alɛksɑ̃dʁ sabɛs petjɔ̃]; 2 April 1770 – 29 March 1818) was a Haitian army officer and statesman who served as the first president of the Republic of Haiti from 1807 until his death in 1818. One of Haiti's founding fathers, Pétion belonged to the revolutionary quartet that also includes Toussaint Louverture, Jean-Jacques Dessalines, and his later rival Henri Christophe. Regarded as an excellent artilleryman in his early adulthood, Pétion would distinguish himself as an esteemed military commander with experience leading both French and Haitian troops. The 1802 coalition formed by him and Dessalines against French forces led by Charles Leclerc would prove to be a watershed moment in the decade-long conflict, eventually culminating in the decisive Haitian victory at the Battle of Vertières in 1803.
Early life
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “Alejandro Petion” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.