After the battle of Verti?res, Dessalines has declared Haiti?s independence on January 1, 1804. After winning the Independence war, Dessalines met with all the heroic leaders and called upon Boirond-Tonnerre to publish the Declaration of Independence in the newly Republic, that has been then changed from French Saint-Domingue to Haiti. A few lines of Haiti?s Declaration of Independence by Boiron Tonnerre follow: ?In order to write the Declaration of our Independence, we need to contain the skin of an White man (Frenchman) for parchment, his skull for inkstand, his blood for ink along with a bayonet for pen?. Dessalines was then chosen by way of a council of generals (blacks and mulattos) to imagine the office of Governor-General. Nine months later, he proclaimed himself Emperor Jacques 1er in September 1804 and ruled Haiti until his assassination on October 17, 1806. To reach Ooty effortlessly, the mountain railway was founded. It was inaugurated in 1908. The working of the wheels on this narrow gauge is founded on the rack and pinion arrangement to aid it climb up the vertical mountain slopes. It travels through many tunnels offering several fantastic sights of the valley beneath. It heads through the dense forests you could see some wild animals such as elephants, monkeys, deer and wild boar on the way if you're fortunate.