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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 .

The summits Social_event were not meant to be linked Connect formally with wider international institutions ; and in fact , a mild rebellion Change_of_leadership against the stiff formality of other international meetings Communication was a part of the genesis of cooperation between France 's President Giscard d'Estaing and Germany 's Chancellor Helmut Schmidt as they conceived Creating the initial summit Social_event of the Group of Six ( G6 ) in 1975 .