The 1805 Haitian Constitution. Articles 12 and 13 of the 1805 Constitution naturalized the Polish soldiers as Haitian citizens, under the same civic denomination of "nwa".
Polish Legions fighting with Haitian Legions. Approximately 5,500 Polish legionnaires were sent by Napoleon to augment his French troops in the battle to reestablish slavery in the colony of Saint-Domingue. Though it remains unclear why, many of…