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.