Images Dated 19th February 2008

Taha Yassin Ramadan and Saddam Hussein inspecting the Basra front, Iraq, February 1987

Taha Yassin Ramadan and Saddam Hussein inspecting the Basra front, Iraq, February 1987. The Iraqi President and commander-in-chief accompanied by Taha Yassin Ramadan, the leader of the paramilitary Popular Army, during the Iran-Iraq War. Ramadan went on to become Vice-President of Iraq in 1991 but was tried and executed after the fall of Saddam Hussein's regime

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Toussaint Louverture, Haitian Revolutionary leader, (1873)

Toussaint Louverture, Haitian Revolutionary leader, (1873). Francois Dominique Toussaint Louverture led the Haitian independence movement during the French Revolution. He freed the island's slaves and briefly made Haiti a black-governed protectorate of France. The French attempted to regain control of their colony in 1802 when Charles Leclerc, Napoleon's brother-in-law landed on the island. After several months fighting Toussaint Louverture signed a treaty with the French on condition that slavery would not be re-established. Shortly afterwards Leclerc had Toussaint Louverture and his family shipped to France on the pretext that he was plotting an uprising. Toussaint Louverture died from pneumonia in exile in April 1803. From Santo Domingo: past and present, with a glance at Hayti, by Samuel Hazard, 1873

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Henri Christophe, King of Haiti, 1806. Artist: Rea

Henri Christophe, King of Haiti, 1806. A former slave, Henri Christophe rose to the rank of General in the rebel army during the Haitian Revolution, which secured Haiti's independence from France in 1804. After the assassination of Jean Jacques Dessalines, the first ruler of the newly independent nation, in 1806, the country was divided into two halves, with Henri Christophe ruler of the northern half. In 1811 he declared the north a kingdom, with himself as monarch. The southern potion remained a republic. Fearing a coup, Henri Christophe committed suicide in 1820, after which the two halves of the country were united as a republic

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