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Cap-Haïtien
Cap-Haïtien is a port on the north coast of Haiti. Founded by the French as Cap-Français, it was the wealthy capital of the colony of Saint-Domingue until 1770 and was burned in 1793 during the Haitian Revolution. Henri Christophe was crowned there as King Henri I in 1811, when it was renamed Cap-Henri; his Citadelle Laferrière and Sans-Souci palace stand nearby.
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- The Epoch Institute. (2026). Cap-Haïtien. In The Epoch Institute Encyclopedia. https://the-epoch-institute.org/encyclopedia/cap-haitien
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