About this picture: There are several forts built around fort Liberte.
An important one is Fort Dauphin, sometimes called Fort Saint Joseph Patron Saint of the city or Fort Liberte.
Other forts in the area are Fort de la Bouque, Batterie de l'Anse, Fort Saint Charles and Fort Saint Fr d rique.
Between 1503 and 1505, Nicol's de Ovando, Spanish governor of the Hispaniola, founded the town of Puerto Real English, Royal Port where is the present town of Caracol, to the west of Fort-Libert .
But soon this town was abandoned and the people moved to the east, founding in 1578 a new town with the Ta no name of the region: Bayaj .
In 1606, those persons living in the old Spanish towns of Bayaj and Yaguana had, by orders of the Spanish king, to move to the eastern part of the island, to a new town called Bayaguana, combining the two old names.
Later, when French people founded a new town in this place, they called it Fort-Dauphin in 1731, named after the Dauphin the Dolphin, son of the French king Louis XV .
When the French Republic was founded, the name was changed to Fort-Libert in 1792. After Henri Christophe became King Henri I of Haiti in 1811, he renamed the city Fort-Royal.
In 1820, after the death of Christophe, the name was changed back to Fort Liberte.
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