Boy'er, Jean

PIERRE, president of the Republic of Hayti, was a mulatto, B. at Port-au-Prince, 1776 He was educated in France, and in 1792, entered the military service. He very soon became a chef de bataillon, and fought against the British on their invasion of his native isle. After further fighting against the British, under General Rigaud, leader of the mulattoes, and afterwards under General Leclerc, he entered into a combination which had for its object the union of the negroes and mulattoes, and a complete emancipation of the colony. After the negro Des salines had seated himself upon the throne, B., along with Pétion, took the lead of the colored people. They a isted Chris top he to overthrow the bloody tyrant in 1806, but deserted Chris top he when they saw that he wished to make himself sovereign. Pétion now established an independent republic in the western part of the island; and B. made himself indispensable to him by his military and administrative knowledge, so that he was invested by the new president with the command of the capital, Portau-Prince, and the rank of a major-general. In this capacity he endeavored to discipline his troops after the European manner; drove back, more than once, the black hordes of Chris top he, thereby preserving l'ort-auPrince from destruction: was recommended to the people by Pétion, when dying, as worthy to be his succe or; and was unanimously elected president of the republic, 1818. He arranged the financial affairs, collected funds into the treasury, improved the administration, and encouraged arts and sciences. After the death of Chris top he, he united the monarchical part of the island with the republic in 1820; and, in 1821, the eastern district also, which had hitherto remained under the dominion of Spain; and he urgently sought the recognition of the independence of the youthful state by France, which was obtained in 1825, upon payment of an indemnity of 150 millions of francs. B. carried on the goverument of the Republic of Hayti for fifteen years from this time, with the most perfect peace; but his policy, which was rather arbitrary, and directed to the object of depre ing the negroes in favor of his own race, resulted in a victorious insurrection in 1843. B. fled to Jamaica. In 1848 he went to Paris, where he D. 1850. Boy'er, a. Fr.; Du. boeijer, a ve el for laying down buoys.] (Naut.) A kind of Dutch sailing-craft. IMG:content-0722.png:[blocks in formation] -A township of Crawford co. Boy'ertown, in Pennsylvania, a post-village of Berks co., 18 miles N. of Reading. Pop. in 1897 estimated at 1,750.