Compare And Contrast The Haitian Revolutions Of Brazil

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If it's for the welfare of everyone and the general happiness of the nation, tell the people that I stay. Brazil gained independence in 1822, and that changed the world forever. The first body paragraph is about how all the revolutions started and why, then the second body paragraph is about how it ended, but the last is about how people were affected by it.

There are many reasons why revolutions start but Haiti and the Brazil revolutions are very different from normal revolutions. The Haitian revolution is the only revolution that the slaves lead. That is super unique because they were the underdogs by a lot and they still fought their best and won. Brazil's revolution was unique because they were super risky and they risked their entire country just to have an empire after. Brazil fought a lot but when they won they started growing and growing a lot until they became one of the biggest empires of all time. The Haitians were doubted by almost everyone but they didn’t care so it was weird to see such an underdog start a …show more content…

Brazil didn’t win that many battles compared to Portugal but how it ended was surprising, to say the least. After Brazil won one of the most important battles the military dictator Montevideo surrendered to Commander Sinian Kersey which overall won Brazil the war. After a lot of help from the British, the French commander surrendered. There were a few reasons why he surrendered, one of the reasons was that they were losing soldiers at a rapid pace while the British and Haitian were not. To surrender is the best way to lose a war so that's why many people did that, but why? Surrendering is like a forfeit, meaning you won't lose anymore. Millions of people died because of both of these wars because they didn’t surrender earlier but it makes it so you don’t lose any more soldiers. Almost nobody thought that they were going to surrender but they did and shocked the