User talk:Markflex

Dear Sir or Madam:

I do not add personal views or opinions. All I have added is supported by facts. Your version is not based on facts. Your first paragraph is completely false. I will concentrate on only that one for now. Your second sentence about Germans growing coffee is false. They were in survival mode from the start. I will add the information later today. Read Moreau de Saint-Méry, “Description Topographique,... politique et historique ... Saint Domingue” He is the best source on Haïti pre revolution and independence. He has a chapter on Bombarde and the Germans. Your third sentence about receiving citizenship from Dessalines and mixing is false. By 1789 Bombardopolis as it became known later was most probably empty of Germans. By 1800 it certainly was. If they mixed, show me any concrete reporting of this. Traces in the population, German names that remained? The Germans whom Dessalines appreciated and gave citizenship too were the German soldiers who came to Haïti with the French expedition of Leclerc and changed side. In Haïti it is widely reported that some of these Germans stood behind Dessalines in Gonaives on January 1st, 1804 when he formally declared independence. Dessalines also is reported to have put them in charge of the armory. Having not yet found a reference citation for this, I deleted that sentence. Your next sentence about Germans designing the Citadelle is false. The Citadelle was designed, as its name implies, by Monsieur Laférrière a French architect. A well known fact.

It is evident that your knowledge in this matter is, I am sorry to say, limited. It also seems dictated by an hidden agenda of yours.

I will gladly continue sharing, not opinions, but facts with you.

Best regards WH

You need to post this on the talk page I will post it for you https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Talk:German_Haitians — Preceding unsigned comment added by 69.112.80.54 (talk) 19:26, 10 February 2021 (UTC)