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Charlemagne Péralte:  In 1915, U.S. President Woodrow Wilson ordered troops to invade Haiti to control Haiti’s political anarchy by installing a president, disband the army, and take over Haitian government. In the countryside, however, this occupation was met with armed resistance and rebel units of peasants were formed. Charlemagne Péralte was a landowner, an officer in the army, and a leader of the units that were raging against the U.S. marine forces. He was eventually caught, killed and nailed to block of wood crucifixion style and put on display by U.S. marines to intimidate the peasant population. It was done as a way to openly teach a lesson to anyone who considered participating in the resistance any further.

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