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André Rigaud (* 1761 in Les Cayes, Haiti; † 18. September 1811 ebenda) war ein haitianischer Politiker und einer der Führer der mulattischen Volksgruppe während der Haitianischen Revolution . Frühes Leben und Exil.
Benoit Joseph André Rigaud (17 January 1761 – 18 September 1811) was the leading mulatto military leader during the Haitian Revolution. Among his protégés were Alexandre Pétion and Jean-Pierre Boyer, both future presidents of Haïti.
- 18 September 1811 (aged 50)
- Revolutionary military leader and General; proclaimed Presidency of the southern state of Haiti in opposition to his protégé, Alexandre Pétion
The War of Knives (French: Guerre des couteaux), also known as the War of the South, was a civil war from June 1799 to July 1800 between the Haitian revolutionary Toussaint Louverture, a black ex-slave who controlled the north of Saint-Domingue (modern-day Haiti), and his adversary André Rigaud, a mixed-race free person of color who ...
- June 1799 – July 1800
- Jacmel, Saint-Domingue
- Pro-Toussaint victory, Toussaint assumes control of the entirety of Saint-Domingue, Rigaud & mixed-race officers flee into exile, Reprisals & massacres against Rigaud supporters
13. Feb. 2020 · André Rigaud was a Haitian political and military figure who controlled Southern Haiti during the country’s civil war against the North, then controlled by Toussaint Louverture. He was a leader of the Mulatto party and a loyalist to France, but also a supporter of free mulattos and a critic of black Haitians. He died in 1811 at the age of 50.
In Toussaint Louverture: Elimination of rivals. …against Toussaint the mulatto leader André Rigaud, who ruled a semi-independent state in the south. Toussaint divined his purpose and forced Hédouville to flee. Succeeding Hédouville was Philippe Roume, who deferred to the Black governor.
3. März 2024 · André Rigaud: Napoleon’s Man in Haiti. An exiled revolutionary, André Rigaud’s return to the island of his birth changed Haiti’s political destiny. Was he sent back to help reinstate slavery? His enemies would have us believe so. Marlene L. Daut | Published in History Today Volume 74 Issue 3 March 2024.
André Rigaud (b. 1761; d. 18 September 1811), Haitian general. A mulatto born in Les Cayes, Haiti, and educated in Bordeaux, France, Rigaud trained as a goldsmith and began his military career serving the French during the American Revolution .
