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Cuartel de Santo Domingo, also known as Fort Santo Domingo and Intramuros of Sta. Rosa, is an old two-storey Spanish barracks building in Santa Rosa, Laguna in the Philippines. [1] It is currently used as the headquarters of the Special Action Force of the Philippine National Police .
Nicolás de Ovando, founder of Santo Domingo, personally chose the lot of the construction when it was completed in 1505. [5] The fortress was considered the Axis of the Conquest by the Spaniards once they had explored the whole island. [6] The architect of the building was the Spaniard Gómez Garcia de Varela.
On May 13, the GNR launched an air attack on Radio Santo Domingo and its main transmitter sites. One of the planes accidentally strafed U.S. troops, prompting the Americans to return fire and shoot down another P-51 of World War II vintage. [15] The following day, the GNR initiated an offensive against the rebel-held northern sector.
The siege of Santo Domingo (1805) was a major battle of the Franco-Haitian War and was fought in March 1805 at Santo Domingo, Saint-Domingue. A force of some 2,000 French Army troops led by Gen. Jean-Louis Ferrand resisted a siege of three weeks by a force of 21,000 Haitian Army troops led by Emperor Jacques I .
Brigantine Schooners in Santo Domingo circa 1850. Haiti under their president Jean-Pierre Boyer had invaded and occupied Dominican Republic from 1822 to 1844. The military forces of the First Republic's army comprised about 4,000 soldiers organized into seven line infantry regiments, several loose battalions, 6 escudrones cavalry and 3 artillery brigades with 2/2 brigades; This army was ...
After Christopher Columbus's arrival on the island in 1492, Santo Domingo became the site of the first cathedral, hospital, customs house and university in the Americas. This colonial town, founded in 1498, was laid out on a grid pattern that became the model for almost all town planners in the New World. [3]
Until the 1977 municipal reform, Santo Domingo included Jicotea too, nowadays part of Ranchuelo municipality. [1] [4] The wards ("consejos populares" in spanish) of the municipality are Cascajal, Mordazo, Sabino Hernández, Manacas, Washington, La Palma y El Jardín (main town of Santo Domingo), 26 de Julio, and Baliño y Rodrigo-Amaro. [5]
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