Travel Guide Île De La Tortue

37 km long and no more than 7 km wide. It's very little. However, the literature (Tortue Island - The Great Legend of the Frantz Funck Brentano, the BD Tortuga) and above all the cinema (Captain Blood of Michael Curtis, Pirates of Roman Polanski, Les Naufragés de l 'Île de la Turtue de Jacques Rozier, Tortuga Island) in the Pirates of the Caribbean series) made the island of the Mythical Turtle. It is associated with intrepid flippers, continuing Spanish galions, to these miriff treasures buried on the return of memorable razzias. But a little as some people do not know that Easter Island belongs to Chile, we forget that the Turtle is part of Haiti. Unfortunately, it is not easy to go to this island, not least because of the lack of maritime control that affects the area. If you would like to explore this piece of historic land, we recommend you find a guide that can accompany you throughout your stay. The best way is to contact the Hotel-de-Paix hotel and Saint-Louis-du-Nord hoteliers and even contact local tourist agencies like Tour Haiti. It should be noted here that the Tortue Town Hall (Lubin Josemane was at the head of 2018) has recently had the project of developing the means of access to the island and tourist infrastructure. A case to follow closely.HistoryThis island owes its name to Christopher Columbus. We don't know if he baptized her so because a turtle was sailing along the Santa Maria side when he walked nearby or because the vast plateau at 460 m had carapace. During the sixteenth century, the Turtle, from where Indians - deported or exterminated - had disappeared, served as refuge for French, English and Dutch flirters who harassed the Spanish. The latter's grip on the region, English and French, queried the possession of the rock until Le Vasseur, at the head of some fifty boucaners, hunted the subjects of Charles I. He fortified the site of Lower Earth and recruited hired recruits, also called «thirty-six months», because they had the obligation to work for three years for the colon who had paid their trip.Fontenay, one of the successors of Le Vasseur, developed the activities of the privateers, incapacitating the Spaniards returning to the Turtle (1653) before abandoning him again in urgent order to defend Santo Domingo attacked by an English wing (1655). The Franco-English struggle took over for a few years, and then the creation of the company of Saint Domingo by Richelieu (1664) shifted the Turtle Island into the French orbit, the company giving its governor the means to fortify and develop this strategic place. Some of the fliffs settled there, but the majority considered the Turtle to be a retreat and refueling point. The boucaners on the north coast of St. Domingo joined them from time to time, to sell the leather they were making, to buy ammunition and to get a few bacchanals. In the eighteenth century, Petit-Goâve's competition, which attracted a lot of flirting, caused the Turtle to decline. In 1770, the family of the Marquis de Choiseul-Praslin, Minister of the Navy, became the owner; There was a new momentum. The island was rented in Labatut, a Gascon already installed in San Domingo; the forest wealth of the island was exploited; Settlers settled in the southeastern part and cultivated indigo, coffee and cotton with the help of a thousand hundred hundred slaves. (They were sixty on the eve of the Revolution.) The revolt of the slaves of the northern region in 1791 brought to the Turtle hundreds of settlers evicted from their homes, the flow of which did not tarnish before the proclamation of the freedom of slaves (1793). Although a little away from the revolutionary agitation, the Turtle nevertheless received Toussaint Louverture's visit in 1797, then in 1802 that of General Leclerc and his wife Pauline (sister of Bonaparte) who spent almost a month there. Shortly after the failure of this expedition, violent disturbances occurred, culminating in the massacre of the settlers and soldiers of the garrison (October 1803).