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Léogâne is the name of both a coastal city and an arrondissement
Arrondissement

An arrondissement is an administrative division in France, most of the nations which were its former colonies in Africa and some other French-speaking nations, as well as in Belgium and the Netherlands....
 in Ouest Department
Ouest Department

Ouest is one of the ten departments of Haiti of Haiti. It is the jurisdictional seat of the national capital, the city of Port-au-Prince. It has an area of 4,827 km? and a population of 2,943,200 ....
, Haïti
Haiti

Haiti , officially the Republic of Haiti , is a Haitian Creole language- and French language-speaking Caribbean country. Along with the Dominican Republic, it occupies the island of Hispaniola, in the Greater Antilles archipelago....
. The city of Léogâne is located at around . The arrondissement of Léogâne contains three communes: Petit-Goâve, Grand-Goâve, and the city of Léogâne. The port town is located about 29 km (18 miles) West of the Haitian capital, Port-au-Prince
Port-au-Prince

Port-au-Prince is the Capital and largest List of cities in Haiti of Haiti. Growth, especially in crowded slums in nearby plains and hillsides, has raised the population of the Port-au-Prince area to between 2.5 and 3 million....
. Léogâne is the birthplace of the Taíno
Taíno

The Ta?nos were Indigenous peoples of the Americas of the Bahamas, Greater Antilles, and the northern Lesser Antilles. It is believed that the seafaring Ta?nos were relatives of the Arawakan people of South America....
 queen Anacaona
Anacaona

Anacaona , also called the Golden Flower, was a Ta?no chief, sister of Behechio and wife of Caonabo, two of the five highest caciques who possessed the island of Hispaniola when the Spanish peoples History of the Dominican Republic in 1492....
 (the town was originally called the Amerindian name Yaguana and the city's name is a corruption of that) and of Marie-Claire Heureuse Félicité, the wife of the Haitian revolutionary Jean-Jacques Dessalines
Jean-Jacques Dessalines

Jean-Jacques Dessalines was a leader of the Haitian Revolution and the first ruler of an independent Haiti under the 1801 constitution. He was autocratic in his rule and crowned himself List of heads of state of Ha?ti in 1805....
 (1758).

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Charlemagne Péralte

Charlemagne Mass?na P?ralte was a Haitian nationalist leader who opposed the US Invasion of his country in 1915. Leading guerrilla fighters called the Cacos, he posed such a challenge to the US forces in Haiti that the occupying forces had to upgrade their presence in the country....
, the leader of the Haitian resistance to the U.S.






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Léogâne is the name of both a coastal city and an arrondissement
Arrondissement

An arrondissement is an administrative division in France, most of the nations which were its former colonies in Africa and some other French-speaking nations, as well as in Belgium and the Netherlands....
 in Ouest Department
Ouest Department

Ouest is one of the ten departments of Haiti of Haiti. It is the jurisdictional seat of the national capital, the city of Port-au-Prince. It has an area of 4,827 km? and a population of 2,943,200 ....
, Haïti
Haiti

Haiti , officially the Republic of Haiti , is a Haitian Creole language- and French language-speaking Caribbean country. Along with the Dominican Republic, it occupies the island of Hispaniola, in the Greater Antilles archipelago....
. The city of Léogâne is located at around . The arrondissement of Léogâne contains three communes: Petit-Goâve, Grand-Goâve, and the city of Léogâne. The port town is located about 29 km (18 miles) West of the Haitian capital, Port-au-Prince
Port-au-Prince

Port-au-Prince is the Capital and largest List of cities in Haiti of Haiti. Growth, especially in crowded slums in nearby plains and hillsides, has raised the population of the Port-au-Prince area to between 2.5 and 3 million....
. Léogâne is the birthplace of the Taíno
Taíno

The Ta?nos were Indigenous peoples of the Americas of the Bahamas, Greater Antilles, and the northern Lesser Antilles. It is believed that the seafaring Ta?nos were relatives of the Arawakan people of South America....
 queen Anacaona
Anacaona

Anacaona , also called the Golden Flower, was a Ta?no chief, sister of Behechio and wife of Caonabo, two of the five highest caciques who possessed the island of Hispaniola when the Spanish peoples History of the Dominican Republic in 1492....
 (the town was originally called the Amerindian name Yaguana and the city's name is a corruption of that) and of Marie-Claire Heureuse Félicité, the wife of the Haitian revolutionary Jean-Jacques Dessalines
Jean-Jacques Dessalines

Jean-Jacques Dessalines was a leader of the Haitian Revolution and the first ruler of an independent Haiti under the 1801 constitution. He was autocratic in his rule and crowned himself List of heads of state of Ha?ti in 1805....
 (1758).

Charlemagne Péralte

Charlemagne Péralte
Charlemagne Péralte

Charlemagne Mass?na P?ralte was a Haitian nationalist leader who opposed the US Invasion of his country in 1915. Leading guerrilla fighters called the Cacos, he posed such a challenge to the US forces in Haiti that the occupying forces had to upgrade their presence in the country....
, the leader of the Haitian resistance to the U.S. occupation that had started in 1915, had been a military officer stationed in Léogâne. He resigned from the military, refusing to surrender to the U.S. troops without a fight. Afterwards he returned to his native town of Hinche
Hinche

Hinche is a city in central Haiti, near the border with the Dominican Republic. It has a population of about 50,000. It is the capital of Centre, Haiti department....
 and began leading the Cacos against the occupation forces.