Black Soldiers Fight at Monmouth, Stony Point, and Siege of Savannah

Black Continental soldiers fought in numerous engagements in 1778–1779. At the Siege of Savannah (October 1779), the Chasseurs-Volontaires de Saint-Domingue — a unit that included roughly 500 free Black men from Haiti — fought alongside American forces. Among them was Henri Christophe, future king of Haiti. Their service was documented in French military records and later celebrated in Haitian national memory as a founding act of Atlantic Black military resistance.