THE DAY IN HISTORY · NOVEMBER 18
November 18 in history
What happened on November 18: 2 moments from the Maps of History atlases, in 1803 and 1877, each linked to the map that shows it.
— Battle of Vertières
18 Nov 1803 — Above Cap-Français, Dessalines’ army stormed the last French positions. Haiti declared independence six weeks later.
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— Battle of Kars
17–18 Nov 1877 — In a night assault, the reformed Russian army takes Kars, a great Ottoman fortress. The war of 1877–78 shows what universal service has made possible; the Congress of Berlin shows the limits of that success. There the great powers rewrite Russia's peace with the Ottomans. Russia keeps Kars, Batum and southern Bessarabia, but loses most of the Balkan settlement for which it fought.
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