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 ====José Martí visits Gonaïves====
-In September of 1892 José Martí, a leader of the Cuban independence movement and a national hero, visits Gonaïves, [[Fort Liberté]]] and [[Le Cap]] on his way to join the war for Cuban independence.
+In September of 1892 José Martí, a leader of the Cuban independence movement and a national hero, visits Gonaïves, [[Fort Liberté]] and [[Le Cap]] on his way to join the war for Cuban independence.
 ====Hammerton Killick and the German Navy====

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 ====José Martí visits Gonaïves====
-In September of 1892 José Martí, a leader of the Cuban independence movement and a national hero, visits Gonaïves, [Fort Liberté]] and [[Le Cap]] on his way to join the war for Cuban independence.
+In September of 1892 José Martí, a leader of the Cuban independence movement and a national hero, visits Gonaïves, [[Fort Liberté]]] and [[Le Cap]] on his way to join the war for Cuban independence.
 ====Hammerton Killick and the German Navy====

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 [[Marie-Claire Heureuse Félicité]], the wife of [[Jean-Jacques Dessalines]] died here in August of 1858. In September of 1892 José Martí, a leader of the Cuban independence movement and a poet and writer, visits the town.
 ====Hammerton Killick and the German Navy====
 In 1902 the Haitian Admiral Hammerton Killick, to avoid to surrender his vessel "Crête-à-Pierrot" (named after [[Crête-à-Pierrot]]) to the german gunship ''Panther'', blew it up and sank with it  after ordering everybody from the ship.

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	====Hammerton Killick and the German Navy====		====Hammerton Killick and the German Navy====
−	~~The~~ Haitian Admiral Hammerton Killick, to avoid to surrender his vessel "Crête-à-Pierrot" (named after [[Crête-à-Pierrot]]) to the german gunship ''Panther'', blew it up and sank with it after ordering everybody from the ship.	+	In 1902 the Haitian Admiral Hammerton Killick, to avoid to surrender his vessel "Crête-à-Pierrot" (named after [[Crête-à-Pierrot]]) to the german gunship ''Panther'', blew it up and sank with it after ordering everybody from the ship.

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-[[image:gonaives_locomotive.jpg|right|thumb|280px|Railway in '''Gonaïves'''.]]'''Gonaïves''' ([[Kreyòl]]: ''Gonayiv'') is a coastal city in northern [[Haiti]], located 150 km (93 miles) Northwest of [[Port-au-Prince]]. It is the capital of the Artibonite department.
+[[image:gonaives_locomotive.jpg|right|thumb|280px|Railway in '''Gonaïves'''.]]'''Gonaïves''' ([[Kreyòl]]: ''Gonayiv'') is a coastal city in northern [[Haiti]], located 150 km (93 miles) Northwest of [[Port-au-Prince]]. It is the capital of the Artibonite department. The ''Gulf of Gonaïves'' is named after the town.
 ====The Battle of Ravine-à-Couleuvres====
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 [[Marie-Claire Heureuse Félicité]], the wife of [[Jean-Jacques Dessalines]] died here in August of 1858. In September of 1892 José Martí, a leader of the Cuban independence movement and a poet and writer, visits the town.
-The ''Gulf of Gonaïves'' is named after the town.
+====Hammerton Killick and the German Navy====
 In September of 2004, Hurricane Jeanne caused flooding and mudslides in the city and the surrounding area. Over 3,000 people died as the result of the hurricane.

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−	[[image:gonaives_locomotive.jpg\|right\|thumb\|280px\|Railway in '''Gonaïves'''.]]'''Gonaïves''' ([[Kreyòl]]: ''Gonayiv'') is a coastal city in northern [[Haiti]], located 150 km (93 miles) Northwest of [[Port-au-Prince]]. It is the capital of the Artibonite department. Gonaïves is also known as Haiti's City of Independence because it was there that [[Jean-Jacques Dessalines]] declared Haiti, the former [[Saint-Domingue]], independent from France on [[January 1]], [[1804]] by reading the [[Act of Independence]], drafted by [[Boisrond Tonnerre]], on the Place d'Armes of the town.	+	[[image:gonaives_locomotive.jpg\|right\|thumb\|280px\|Railway in '''Gonaïves'''.]]'''Gonaïves''' ([[Kreyòl]]: ''Gonayiv'') is a coastal city in northern [[Haiti]], located 150 km (93 miles) Northwest of [[Port-au-Prince]]. It is the capital of the Artibonite department.
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		+	====The Battle of Ravine-à-Couleuvres====
		+	In [[1802]] an important battle of the Haitian Revolution, the Battle of [[Ravine-à-Couleuvres]] was fought near Gonaïves.
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		+	====Haitian independence====
		+	Gonaïves is also known as Haiti's City of Independence because it was there that [[Jean-Jacques Dessalines]] declared Haiti, the former [[Saint-Domingue]], independent from France on [[January 1]], [[1804]] by reading the [[Act of Independence]], drafted by [[Boisrond Tonnerre]], on the Place d'Armes of the town.

	[[Marie-Claire Heureuse Félicité]], the wife of [[Jean-Jacques Dessalines]] died here in August of 1858. In September of 1892 José Martí, a leader of the Cuban independence movement and a poet and writer, visits the town.		[[Marie-Claire Heureuse Félicité]], the wife of [[Jean-Jacques Dessalines]] died here in August of 1858. In September of 1892 José Martí, a leader of the Cuban independence movement and a poet and writer, visits the town.

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	* Gonaïves. ''The Columbia Gazetteer of North America, edited by Saul B. Cohen. New York: Columbia University Press, 2000. [http://www.bartleby.com/69/]. [accessed March 11, 2006].		* Gonaïves. ''The Columbia Gazetteer of North America, edited by Saul B. Cohen. New York: Columbia University Press, 2000. [http://www.bartleby.com/69/]. [accessed March 11, 2006].

		+	[[Category:Haitian towns]]
	[[Category:Places of the Haitian Revolution]]		[[Category:Places of the Haitian Revolution]]

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 ==See also==
-* [[Toussaint Louverture letter to Jean-Jacques Dessalines (1802)|Toussaint Louverture letter to Jean-Jacques Dessalines]] - Letter by [[Toussaint Louverture]] fromGonaïves (February 8, [[1802]]), Toussaint's headquarters at that time.
+* [[Toussaint Louverture letter to Jean-Jacques Dessalines (1802)|Toussaint Louverture letter to Jean-Jacques Dessalines]] - Letter by [[Toussaint Louverture]] from Gonaïves (February 8, [[1802]]), Toussaint's headquarters at that time.
 ==References==