The Haitian occupation of Santo Domingo was the annexation and merger of then-independent Republic of Spanish Haiti into the Republic of Haiti, which lasted twenty-two years from February 9, 1822, to
Portrait of Juan Sánchez Ramírez, painted in the early 19th century
José Nuñez de Cáceres, the first and only governor of The Republic of Spanish Haiti from 1821 to 1822
19th-century French print showing Mackau forcing Boyer to agree to pay 150 million francs to compensate French planters
Jean-Pierre Boyer, the ruler of Haiti
The Dominican War of Independence was a war of independence that began when the Dominican Republic declared independence from the Republic of Haiti on February 27, 1844 and ended on January 24, 1856.
Haitian occupation of Santo Domingo
…Pedro Santana, a wealthy cattle-rancher from El Seibo who commanded a private army of peons who worked on his estates. This marked the beginning of the Dominican War of Independence. Santo Domingo attained independence as the Dominican Republic in 1844. Dominican nationalists led an insurrection against the Haitians. On the morning…
Illustration of the Battle of Carreras, April 21st, 1849.
Jean-Pierre Boyer, the president of Haiti from 1818 to 1843
An assembly of the Trinitarios