The United States and Haiti were the first and second republics in the New World. In the Siege of Savannah in 1779, American Revolutionary forces fought British imperialists in Georgia with more than 500 free men of color, recruited in colonial Saint-Domingue by a French admiral. It was at this siege that Haitian founders cut their military teeth; dwelled on the possibility of throwing off the French empire’s chains; and sparked thoughts of revolution, which would begin a dozen years later.
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