French Capitulation in Saint-Domingue (1803)

One day after the crushing defeat in the Battle of Vertieres, Napoléon Bonaparte's top commander in Saint-Domingue surrenders to Jean-Jacques Dessalines. This paves the way for the Haitian declaration of Independence on January 1, 1804.

Source

 * Léger, Jacques Nicolas. Haiti Her History And Her Detractors. (1907). The Neale Publishing Company. New York. available online p. 148f.