The Haitian Revolution Change_of_leadership ( ) was a successful anti-slavery and anti-colonial insurrection Change_of_leadership by self-liberated slaves against French colonial rule in Saint-Domingue , now the sovereign nation of Haiti .

In 1779 , more than 500 recruits from Saint-Domingue ( the French colony which later became Becoming Haiti ) , under the overall command Control of French nobleman Charles Hector , Comte d'Estaing , fought Hostile_encounter alongside American colonial troops against the British Army during the siege of Savannah .