500 Free Black Haitian Soldiers Fight at the Siege of Savannah

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