The Annexation of the Dominican Republic to Spain or Reintegration of Santo Domingo was a four-year period between 1861 and 1865 during which the former Spanish possession of Santo Domingo in the east
Swearing-in of Santana as governor and captain-general of Santo Domingo, before Serrano and a portrait of Isabella II. Painting by Wenceslao Cisneros.
Felipe Rivero y Lemoine
The archbishop Bienvenido Monzón y Martín-Puente
José de la Gándara in Santo Domingo
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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
Spanish annexation of the Dominican Republic
…between 1861 and 1865 during which the former Spanish possession of Santo Domingo in the eastern part of the island of Hispaniola, then the independent Dominican Republic, was occupied and annexed by the Spanish Empire, following the request of Dominican dictator Pedro Santana. The period coincided with the American Civil…
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