Napoleon had been fighting this army of slaves and free people in Haiti and it depleted his forces. And after the Revolution, when the French were driven out, they stopped and sold this big chunk of North America to the Americans for very little money.
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Napoleon had been fighting this army of slaves and free people in Haiti and it depleted his forces.
Napoleon had been fighting this army of slaves and free people in Haiti and it depleted his forces.
Napoleon had been fighting this army of slaves and free people in Haiti and it depleted his forces.
Napoleon had been fighting this army of slaves and free people in Haiti and it depleted his forces.
Napoleon had been fighting this army of slaves and free people in Haiti and it depleted his forces.
Napoleon had been fighting this army of slaves and free people in Haiti and it depleted his forces.
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