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Santo Domingo attained independence as the Dominican Republic in 1844. Dominican nationalists led an insurrection against the Haitians. On the morning of 27 February 1844, the gates of Santo Domingo rang with the shots of the plotters, who had emerged from their meetings to openly challenge the Haitians. Their efforts were successful, and for ...
Haitian aggression began in late 1800 when Toussaint L’Ouverture, the general-in-chief of Saint-Domingue, invaded Santo Domingo in order to both expand his sphere of control and capture the port of Santo Domingo.
On February 9, 1822, the troops led by Haitian President Jean Pierre Boyer invaded Santo Domingo after a brief period of sovereignty, known as the Ephemeral Independence, proclaimed on December 1, 1821, which meant the emancipation of the then Spanish colony.
The Haitian occupation of Santo Domingo was the annexation and merger of then-independent Republic of Spanish Haiti into the Republic of Haiti, that lasted twenty-two years, from February 9, 1822, to February 27, 1844.
On Haiti immediately after its independence from France, the Haitian occupation of Santo Domingo, 1822–44, and the independence of the Dominican Republic, see essay IV: 4.
two months and nine days later, Santo Domingo - Spanish Hayti - was invaded and occupied by Boyer's troops, an occupation which lasted until 1844.
In 1822, Haitian president Jean-Pierre Boyer proclaimed emancipation in neighboring Santo Domingo, heralding a new epoch of ‘unification’ in Hispaniola. This article reframes the origins and consequences of this unification by exploring the antislavery revolution that made it possible.
In the late eighteenth century the French colony of Saint-Domingue, the western third of the island of Hispaniola, was the most productive colony in the Antilles. It was also the one afflicted by the most complex economic and social problems.
CONQUEST OF HAITI AND SANTO DOMINGO By Ernest H. Gruening Managing Editor of The Nation, New York A documented narrative of the United States Government's seizure of political and military control in the two island republics - Ruthless destruction of Dominican self-government - " The gra-vest breach of fundamental American traditions in our ...
Just a couple of months after the Dominican side of the island proclaimed its independence from Spain in 1821, taking on the name of Spanish Haiti, Haiti’s president Jean Pierre Boyer gained control of the entire island and “proclaimed Dominican emancipation for a second time” in 1822 (5).