> some historians claim that boyer also sent to the greeks 25 tons of haitian coffee that could be sold and the proceeds used to purchase weapons, but not enough evidence exists to support this or the other claim that one hundred haitian volunteers set off to fight in the greek revolution. allegedly, their ship was boarded by pirates somewhere in the mediterranean and these fighters purportedly never reached their destination > below is the letter to the greeks translated in english (the letter was originally written in french): > liberte (the flag) egalite > jean pierre boyer > president of haiti > to the citizens of greece a. korais, k. polychoroniades, a. bogorides and ch. klonaris. > in paris > "before i received your letter from paris, dated last august 20, the news about the revolution of your co-citizens against the despotism which lasted for about three centuries had already arrived here. with great enthusiasm we learned that hellas was finally forced to take up arms in order to gain her freedom and the position that she once held among the nations of the world. such a beautiful and just case, most importantly, the first successes which have accompanied it, cannot leave haitians indifferent, for we, like the hellenes, were for a long time subjected to a dishonorable slavery and finally, with our own chains, broke the head of tyranny
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