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Victor Hugues

1762–1826 · 19th century

Victor Hugues was a French revolutionary commissioner who in 1794 recaptured Guadeloupe from the British and enforced the National Convention's abolition of slavery there, while executing royalists and sending privateers against enemy shipping. As governor of French Guiana from 1799 he enforced Napoleon's restoration of slavery in 1802, and he surrendered the colony to an Anglo-Portuguese force in 1809.

Victor Hugues
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Colony of Guadeloupe

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