00:00Did you know that a slave revolt on a small Caribbean island accidentally doubled the size
00:04of the United States? In 1791, enslaved people in Haiti rose up against French colonial rule.
00:10The fighting was brutal and lasted over a decade. Napoleon sent thousands of soldiers to crush it.
00:16Most of them never came home, killed by combat and yellow fever. Napoleon needed Haiti to fund
00:22his American empire. Without it, the whole plan collapsed. So in 1803, he sold Louisiana to the
00:28United States for $15 million. One revolution, one island, half a continent changed hands.
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