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Chasseurs-Volontaires de Saint-Domingue is a group of white colonists, 800 native ''gens de couleur'' riflemen, and slaves, from French colonial Saint-Domingue (now the Republic of Haiti), who participated in the American Revolutionary War in Savannah, Georgia. The group was established by an order of 12 March 1779, under the command of the Laurent François Le Noir de Rouvray. ==History== (詳細はComte d'Estaing and his lieutenant, Jean-Baptiste Bernard Vaublanc, left French Cape, August 15, 1779, and arrived September 8, 1779, in Savannah, Georgia, to help the American colonial rebels – who were intent on regaining control of the city, which has been captured in 1778 by British forces under Lieutenant-Colonel Archibald Campbell. The British Army began their attack on 24 September in Savannah before dawn, besieged by the French and the Americans, to defend the trenches open at night. The Volunteers of Saint-Domingue, in conjunction with the Grenadier Volunteers, charged with their bayonets at the British column, but being too close to the English works, they suffered heavy losses. The siege ended with the failure of the attack on 9 October 1779. Slave-boy Henri Christophe may have served as a drummer and would later become the King of Haiti. 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Chasseurs-Volontaires de Saint-Domingue」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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