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Louis Delgrès was a
mulatto leader of the movement in
Guadeloupe resisting reoccupation (and thus the reinstitution of
slavery) by
Napoleonic France. An experienced military officer who had long experience fighting
Great Britain in the many wars that country had with
Revolutionary France, Delgrès took over the resistance movement from
Magloire Pélage after it became evident that Pélage was loyal to
Napoleon. Delgrès believed that the "tyrant" Napoleon had betrayed both the ideals of the
Republic and the interests of France's colored citizens, and intended to fight to the death.
After a spirited but hopeless resistance, Delgrès and his followers found themselves trapped on the
Matouba Volcano. There, Delgrès and most of his followers chose to commit suicide by detonating their own
gunpowder stores. This act, though it effectively ended Guadeloupe's native resistance to French authority, had powerful symbolic value and continues to be heralded as an example of exceptional
heroism in Guadeloupe, France, and elsewhere.
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