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1586- Francis Drake captures Santo Domingo in the Battle of Santo Domingo; 1588- Cristobal de Llerena writes the first theatrical play in the New World [relevant?] 1600- After the gold mines were exhausted most colonists had decided to become conquistadors and explorers and had left for the mines of Mexico and Peru. Others decide to settle and ...
Santo Domingo (Spanish pronunciation: [ˈsanto ðoˈmiŋɡo] meaning "Saint Dominic" but verbatim "Holy Sunday"), once known as Santo Domingo de Guzmán, known as Ciudad Trujillo between 1936 and 1961, is the capital and largest city of the Dominican Republic and the largest metropolitan area in the Caribbean by population. [7]
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On 22 July 1795, Spain ceded to France the remaining Spanish part of the island of Hispaniola, Santo Domingo (now the Dominican Republic), in the second Treaty of Basel, ending the War of the Pyrenees. The people of the eastern part of Saint-Domingue (French Santo Domingo) [7] [8] [9] were opposed to the arrangements and hostile toward the ...
The Saint-Domingue expedition was a large French military invasion sent by Napoleon Bonaparte, then First Consul, under his brother-in-law Charles Victor Emmanuel Leclerc in an attempt to regain French control of the Caribbean colony of Saint-Domingue on the island of Hispaniola, and curtail the measures of independence and abolition of slaves taken by the former slave Toussaint Louverture.
Annexation of Santo Domingo or of the Dominican Republic may refer to: French annexation during the Era de Francia (1795–1815) Haitian occupation of Santo Domingo (1822–1844) Annexation of the Dominican Republic to Spain (1861–1865) Proposed annexation of Santo Domingo by the United States (1869–1871)
Santo Domingo was initially the political and cultural hub of Spanish presence in the new world, but after a few decades started to decline as the Spaniards focused their attention more on the mainland after conquering Mexico, Peru, and other regions of Latin America. Ciudad Colonial nevertheless remained an important historical site.
He hoped that this exodus would benefit America, Santo Domingo, and the African Americans since it would lower the chances of a race war within the U.S.; provide skilled workers to the island; and would enable the 4 million newly emancipated African Americans in the southern U.S. to leave the racism and poverty of the post-war South and start ...