Emperor (Jones) Jacques I.

Emperor (Jones) Jacques I.

For the sake of forgotten History. Emperor Jones ruled Haiti. He rebelled against the French and claimed the island. Napoleon send his cousin over with an army to reclaim Haiti. Emperor Jones invited the French commander over with a company of soldiers for a diplomatic meeting. They both did some marching to show how perfect their troops where side by side. You can say it was some kind of show of forces on display. As it was said The French looked real good until they both marched to the cliff. The French troops stopped at the cliff, but the Haitian troops marched off the cliff to their death on to the rocks below.

Napoleon's cousin was so shocked and impressed that he retreated gracefully back to his Armada with out a fight and sailed back to France. Haiti then became a sovereign nation.

Emperor Jacques I was assassinated on October 17, 1806 with two members of his administration Alexandre Pétion and Henri Christophe assuming power which led to a split in the country with Pétion leading the southern Republic of Haiti and Christophe leading the northern State of Haiti. Many years later, on August 26, 1849, President Faustin Soulouque re-established an Empire in Haiti which would last until January 15, 1859.