The Laptev Sea, into which the Lena River empties, helps keep the temperature of the world's northernmost regions regulated, through large blocks of ice that from from the Lena's outflow and then break off when the temperature rises at the river's mouth, drifting off to cool.
The Independence of Haiti (1804) Contenidos Adicicionales. Since the late 17th Century, the French holds the western part of Saint-Domingues Island, Hispaniola. A century later, sugar cane production makes Haiti one of the current most prosperous colonies of the Caribbean, thanks to the new independent United States.
The Haitian revolution came to North American shores in the form of a refugee crisis. In 1793, competing factions battled for control of the then-capital of St. Domingue, Cap-Francais (franÃ§ais Now-Cap.) Haitien haÃ¯tien the fighting and ensuing fire destroyed much of, the capital and refugees piled into ships anchored in. the harbor