Bruce E. Twyman, the author of The Black Seminole Legacy, and North American Politics, 1693 to 1845, has a new title release. The new book is, The Last Crusade and the Empire of Haiti. This book was inspired by Twyman’s Black Seminole Legacy research. A key nexus between the Haitian Revolution and the Black Seminole Wars, was the Haitian Maroon General George Biassou. Biassou exited Haiti in 1795 and arrived in Florida with a small auxiliary force as allies of the Spanish colonial government. Though Biassou would die in 1801, members of his band married into the broader Black Seminole community, and participated in the Patriots War of 1812. Even a superficial examination of Biassou leads directly to his subordinate officer in the beginning of the Revolution, Toussaint L’Overture.
The Last Crusade and the Empire of Haiti, highlights the Roman Catholic struggle against the Islamic rise and expansion into, Europe and territory formerly held by the Roman Empire. The official Church struggle initiated against Islam was the Crusades. A major location of the Crusades was on the Iberian Peninsula. This was the site of Spain and Portugal– previously known as Roman Hispania. The Islamic Moors conquered and held the Iberian Peninsula for 700 years. The Crusades on the Iberian Peninsula was known as the Reconquista. After victory over the Moors in 1492, the Christian Soldiers of the Reconquista became Conquistadors in the New World Of America.
The Spanish established colonial Hispaniola as their first colonial base in the early Sixteenth Century. By 1700 Hispaniola was divided geopolitically into Spanish Santo Domingo and French San Domingue. The San Dominigue Revolution (popularly known as the Haitian Revolution ) between 1789 and 1804, established the Haitian Empire under Emperor Jean Jacques Dessalines. Haitian President Petion would give Gen. Simon Bolivar military and political support, while converting him to the idea of ending slavery as a key part of the Revolution against Spain.
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