Two sheets. Col. ms. Medium: Segmented and backed. Scale: 1:350 000 (bar). Cartographic Note: Graduated map, Mercator projection, meridian of Paris. Scale in leagues and toises. The map is drawn on a pencil copying grid. Additional Places: Haiti, Dominican Republic. Contents Note: Fortifications, anchorages, land plots and the boundary line of 1776 are shown.
For the printed version of this west sheet of this map, published in 1798, see Gren83A/2 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. The British withdrew in 1798, having been been defeated by the revolutionary army of formerly enslaved people led by Toussaint Louverture.