Henri Christophe is known for constructing a large mountaintop fortress in Haiti.
== Early life ==Claims about Henri Christophe's place of birth and life before coming to prominence have been contested since the early nineteenth century
 Alejandro Llenas wrote that Christophe took 997 from Santiago alone, and "Monte Plata, San Pedro and Cotu were reduced to ashes, and their residents either had their throats slit or were taken captives by the thousands, like farm animals, tied up and getting beaten on their way to Haiti

