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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.

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  1. 1779
    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.

  2. 1779
    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.