Dominican Restoration War
The Dominican Restoration War or the Dominican War of Restoration was a guerrilla war between 1863 and 1865 in the Dominican Republic between nationalists and Spain, the latter of which had recolonized the country 17 years after its independence. The war resulted in the restoration of Dominican sovereignty, the withdrawal of Spanish forces, the separation of the Captaincy General of Santo Domingo from Spain, and the establishment of a second republic in the Dominican Republic.
Dominican Restoration War
Pedro Santana is sworn in as governor-general of the re-established Captaincy General of Santo Domingo.
Spanish army official in Santo Domingo (1864).
Illustration of the Battle of Santiago (1863).
Guerrilla warfare is a form of unconventional warfare in which small groups of irregular military, such as rebels, partisans, paramilitary personnel or armed civilians including recruited children, use ambushes, sabotage, terrorism, raids, petty warfare or hit-and-run tactics in a rebellion, in a violent conflict, in a war or in a civil war to fight against regular military, police or rival insurgent forces.
Spanish guerrilla resistance to the Napoleonic French invasion of Spain at the Battle of Valdepeñas
Soviet partisans on the road in Belarus, 1944 counter-offensive
Siege of the Fortaleza San Luis by the Dominican rebels by Melanio Guzmán
Lakhdari, Drif, Bouhired and Bouali. Female Algerian guerillas of the Algerian War of Independence, c. 1956.