François-Dominique Toussaint Louverture was a Haitian general and the most prominent leader of the Haitian Revolution. During his life, Louverture first fought against the French, then for them, and then finally against France again for the cause of Haitian independence.

How Toussaint Louverture died?

Captured and imprisoned at Fort de Joux in France, L'Ouverture died of pneumonia on April 7, 1803. Independence for Saint Dominque followed one year later in 1804 under the leadership of Jean-Jacques Dessalines, one of L'Ouverture's generals, who changed the name to Haiti.

Who killed Toussaint?

He was killed on October 17, 1806, possibly in an ambush led by Alexandre Pétion and Henri Christophe, who later split the country in two and ruled each section separately..