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  2. United States occupation of Haiti - Wikipedia

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    The occupation was costly for the Haitian government; American advisors collected about 5% of Haiti's revenue while the 1915 treaty with the United States limited Haiti's income, resulting with fewer jobs for the government to assign. [7] [49] Numerous agricultural changes included the introduction of sisal.

  3. Operation Uphold Democracy - Wikipedia

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    President Jean-Bertrand Aristide returns triumphantly to the National Palace at Port-au-Prince, Haiti, October 1994. Jean Bertrand Aristide returned to Haiti in October 1994 after 3 years of forced exile. [15] Operation Uphold Democracy officially ended on 31 March 1995, when it was replaced by the United Nations Mission in Haiti (UNMIH).

  4. Haiti during World War I - Wikipedia

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    The United States occupation of Haiti began on July 28, 1915, when 330 US Marines landed at the Haitian capital city of Port-au-Prince, on the authority of United States President Woodrow Wilson. The July Intervention took place after the murder of dictator President Vilbrun Guillaume Sam by insurgents angered by his political executions of his ...

  5. Military history of Haiti - Wikipedia

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    France, Germany, and the United States were the major actors; the latter occupied the country in 1915. During the occupation, the United States made an unsuccessful attempt to modernize Haiti's armed forces. The United States Marines disbanded Haiti's army, which consisted of an estimated 9,000 men, including 308 generals.

  6. Rosalvo Bobo - Wikipedia

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    In response, U.S. Marines landed at Port-au-Prince on 28 July 1915, beginning the United States occupation of Haiti. [2] U.S. Admiral William Banks Caperton commanded U.S. troops occupying Haiti after the assassination of President Sam. [2] Under orders from Washington, D.C., he sought to find a suitable candidate to assume the presidency.

  7. Battle of Fort Rivière - Wikipedia

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    In 1915, United States forces landed in Haiti during a period of political instability. Cacos insurgents, quasi-military mountain tribes who served as mercenaries for the highest bidder, routinely attacked political targets, as well as ordinary Haitians, to sustain themselves. By October, United States Marines had trapped the Cacos in the ...

  8. U.S. military flies Marines into Haiti embassy, evacuating ...

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    The middle-of-the-night operation was conducted via helicopter by the U.S. military at the request of the State Department for embassy security, the U.S. Southern Command, based in Doral, said in ...

  9. Haitian Aviation Corps - Wikipedia

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    The Aviation Corps of the Armed Forces of Haiti (French: Corps d'Aviation des Forces Armées d’Haïti) is the air force component of the Armed Forces of Haiti.The air corps was disbanded along with the rest of the armed forces after Operation Uphold Democracy, the U.S. invasion of 1994.