Jump to content

File:Corps de Charlemagne Péralte.jpg

Page contents not supported in other languages.
From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Original file (2,313 × 3,600 pixels, file size: 1.92 MB, MIME type: image/jpeg)

This file is from Wikimedia Commons (production) and may be used by other projects. The description on its file description page there is shown below.

Any autoconfirmed user can overwrite this file from the same source. Please ensure that overwrites comply with the guideline.

Summary

Description
Français : Cadavre du résistant haïtien Charlemagne Péralte, dont le corps a été cloué sur une porte de la ville de Hinche après son assassinat par les Marines américains. Image prise par les forces américaines et publiée pour démoraliser les derniers partisans de Péralte.
English: Corpse of Charlemagne Péralte, whose body was nailed up to a door in the town of Hinche following his killing by the US Marines. Image taken by US forces and published to demoralise Péralte's remaining followers.
Date
Source Described in various sources - e.g. http://www.ci.miami.fl.us/haiti2004/history.htm or http://www.globalresearch.ca/index.php?context=va&aid=17130 - as having taken by the US occupying forces following Péralte's killing by the USMC and widely distributed.
Author Said to be an official production by US occupying forces in Haiti
Permission
(Reusing this file)
PD-USGov; copyright status in Haiti undetermined, Commons has no guidance on Haitian copyright terms

Licensing

Public domain
This work is in the public domain in the United States because it is a work prepared by an officer or employee of the United States Government as part of that person’s official duties under the terms of Title 17, Chapter 1, Section 105 of the US Code. Note: This only applies to original works of the Federal Government and not to the work of any individual U.S. state, territory, commonwealth, county, municipality, or any other subdivision. This template also does not apply to postage stamp designs published by the United States Postal Service since 1978. (See § 313.6(C)(1) of Compendium of U.S. Copyright Office Practices). It also does not apply to certain US coins; see The US Mint Terms of Use.
This file has been identified as being free of known restrictions under copyright law, including all related and neighboring rights.

Captions

Corpse of Charlemagne Péralte nailed up to a door in the town of Hinche following his killing by the US Marines in 1919.

Items portrayed in this file

depicts

November 1919Gregorian

image/jpeg

c90e288523a5aff0a6acdb540ec30e73cb60df55

878,381 byte

1,200 pixel

771 pixel

File history

Click on a date/time to view the file as it appeared at that time.

Date/TimeThumbnailDimensionsUserComment
current03:11, 26 February 2025Thumbnail for version as of 03:11, 26 February 20252,313 × 3,600 (1.92 MB)wikimediacommons>JayCubbyhigher res from new yorker
The following pages on the English Wikipedia link to this file (pages on other projects are not listed):