Single sheet. Hand col. engr. Medium: Segmented and backed. Scale: 1:450 000 (bar). Cartographic Note: Graduated map, Mercator projection, meridians of Paris and Greenwich. Scales in toises, leagues and English Statute miles. Additional Places: Haiti. A series of revolutionary uprisings in Saint Domigue (Haiti) between 1791 and 1804 led to Haiti achieving independence on 1st January 1804, and becoming the first country to ban slavery permanently. In 1793, Britain, which controlled neighbouring plantation colonies, saw the uprisings as an opportunity for seizing control of one of France's most lucrative colonies. The British withdrew in 1798, having been been defeated by the revolutionary army of formerly enslaved people led by Toussaint Louverture.