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Where did Toussaint Louverture die after Napoleon had him tricked onto a ship in 1802?
Toussaint was held at the Fort de Joux, a medieval mountain fortress in the Jura at 950 metres altitude. He died of pneumonia in his cell on 7 April 1803. Haiti declared independence nine months later.
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The Formerly Enslaved Haitian General Who Was the Effective Ruler of Saint-Domingue Until Napoleon Tricked Him Onto a Ship in 1802 and Locked Him in a French Alpine Fortress to Die Toussaint Louverture led the Saint-Domingue revolution from 1791 to 1801 and was the effective ruler of the colony — the wealthiest slave-economy in the Atlantic — when he wrote a constitution making himself governor for life in July 1801. Napoleon sent a 30,000-man army to depose him in 1802. Toussaint was captured by deceit, taken to the Fort de Joux in the French Jura, and died there of pneumonia on 7 April 1803.
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