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The Haitian occupation of Santo Domingo [a] (Spanish: Ocupación haitiana de Santo Domingo; French: Occupation haïtienne de Saint-Domingue; Haitian Creole: Okipasyon ayisyen nan Sen Domeng) was the annexation and merger of then-independent Republic of Spanish Haiti (formerly Santo Domingo) into the Republic of Haiti, that lasted twenty-two years, from February 9, 1822, to February 27, 1844.
The Saint-Domingue expedition was a large French military invasion sent by Napoleon Bonaparte, then First Consul, under his brother-in-law Charles Victor Emmanuel Leclerc in an attempt to regain French control of the Caribbean colony of Saint-Domingue on the island of Hispaniola, and curtail the measures of independence and abolition of slaves taken by the former slave Toussaint Louverture.
As a result of the Hogan and Porter missions, in February 1847, Washington appointed Francis Harrison Pierpont as his commercial agent in Santo Domingo,(96) but beyond that fact, according to American historian Charles C. Tansill, "[t]he outbreak of the Mexican War in May 1846 prevented any further activity with reference to Santo Domingo."(97 ...
On 22 July 1795, Spain ceded to France the remaining Spanish part of the island of Hispaniola, Santo Domingo (now the Dominican Republic), in the second Treaty of Basel, ending the War of the Pyrenees. The people of the eastern part of Saint-Domingue (French Santo Domingo) [7] [8] [9] were opposed to the arrangements and hostile toward the ...
The siege of Santo Domingo (1805) was a major battle of the Franco-Haitian War and was fought in March 1805 at Santo Domingo, Saint-Domingue.A force of some 2,000 French Army troops led by Gen. Jean-Louis Ferrand resisted a siege of three weeks by a force of 21,000 Haitian Army troops led by Emperor Jacques I.
Jean-Pierre Boyer succeeded Pétion in 1811; he consolidated power in the west and invaded Santo Domingo, thereby unifying Hispaniola. However, the nation struggled economically due to indemnity payments beginning in 1825. In 1843, Haiti descended into chaos after a revolt which overthrew Boyer; the government was then run by short-lived ...
Last November, after the country launched mass deportations of Haitians, the U.S. Embassy in Santo Domingo warned African-American visitors they could be mistaken for being Haitian and be detained ...
Siege of Santo Domingo (1805) Haiti [4] France: Defeat. Haitian withdrawal from Santo Domingo; 1811 German Coast Uprising (1811) Rebel slaves. Supported by: State of Haiti United States: Defeat (limited involvement) Suppression and later trials; Action of 3 February 1812 (1812) Republic of Haiti United Kingdom: Defeat. British victory ...