Dominican Restoration War
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The Dominican Restoration War or the Dominican War of Restoration, called War of Santo Domingo in Spain, was a guerrilla war between 1863 and 1865 in the Dominican Republic between Dominican nationali
Pedro Santana is sworn in as governor-general of the re-established Captaincy General of Santo Domingo.
Gaspar Polanco, Commander-in-Chief of the Battle of Santiago
Gregorio Luperón
Battle of Monte Cristi
Dominican Republic
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The Dominican Republic is an island country on the eastern part of the Caribbean island of Hispaniola in the Greater Antilles of the Caribbean Sea in the North Atlantic Ocean. It shares a maritime bor
Dominican Restoration War
…Spanish: Guerra de la Restauración), called War of Santo Domingo in Spain (Guerra de Santo Domingo), was a guerrilla war between 1863 and 1865 in the Dominican Republic between Dominican nationalists and Spain, the latter of which had recolonized the country 17 years after its independence. It ended with the withdrawal…
Catedral Santa María La Menor is the oldest cathedral built in the Americas.
In 1838, Juan Pablo Duarte and others established a secret patriotic society called La Trinitaria, which helped undermine Haitian occupation.
Monument built by Dominicans in 1944, commemorating the participants of the War of Restoration
The flag of the United States waving over Ozama Fortress during the U.S. occupation of the Dominican Republic, c. 1922