Single sheet. Col. ms. Physical description Note: Very fine. Scale: [ca.1:27 000 (bar)]. Cartographic Note: Ungraduated. Scale in toises. Additional Places: Haiti. Contents Note: Fortifications and the town of Fort George shown in red. Dotted red track of the customary route of French naval vessels. A series of revolutionary uprisings in Saint Domigue (Haiti) between 1791 and 1804 led to Haiti achieving independence on 1st January 1804, and becoming the first country to permanently ban slavery. In 1793, Britain controlled neighbouring plantation colonies which were reliant on the labour of enslaved people and saw the uprisings as an opportunity for seizing control of one of France's most lucrative colonies. Henry Dundas, whose name is inscribed at the top of the chart, led a British force for the conquest of San Domingo in 1793 and had captured Mole St.Nicolas by early 1794. The British withdrew from Haiti in 1798, having been been defeated by the revolutionary army of formerly enslaved people led by Toussaint Louverture.