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The Haitian occupation of Santo Domingo [a] (Spanish: Ocupación haitiana de Santo Domingo; French: Occupation haïtienne de Saint-Domingue; Haitian Creole: Okipasyon ayisyen nan Sen Domeng) was the annexation and merger of then-independent Republic of Spanish Haiti (formerly Santo Domingo) into the Republic of Haiti, that lasted twenty-two years, from February 9, 1822, to February 27, 1844.
In February, the Spanish authorities declared Santo Domingo under a state of siege. In April, the Spanish Army defeated the Dominicans led by General Lucas de Peña at Cibao. In August, Dominican dissidents in collaboration with the Haitian rebel Sylvain Salnave established sanctuaries along the Haitian-Dominican border to their mutual advantage.
Simultaneously, the Haitian army of Jean Pierre Boyer invaded the new independent territory, starting an occupation period that extended for 22 years. In 1830, Spain attempted to reclaim the former colony, but this proved unsuccessfully due to widespread rejection from the Dominicans.
Human trafficking along the Haitian-Dominican border persists because both sending and receiving countries have a huge economic stake in continuing the stream of undocumented migration, which directly leads to trafficking. [114] Trafficking is a profitable business [115] for traffickers both in Haiti and the Dominican Republic. As long as large ...
Haiti, History, and the Gods. University of California Press. ISBN 978-0-520-21368-5. Dubois, Laurent (2004). Avengers of the New World: The Story of the Haitian Revolution. Cambridge: The Belknap Press of Harvard University Press. ISBN 0-674-01826-5. Edwards, Bryan (1797). A Historical Survey of the French Colony on the Island of St. Domingo ...
The Dominican Republic does not celebrate its independence from Spain but it does celebrate its freedom from Haiti, which occupied it until 1844 after invading in 1822 and liberating its slaves ...
It was later returned to Spain, and gained its first independence from Spain as the Republic of Spanish Haiti in 1821, then from Haiti in 1844 as the First Dominican Republic, and finally from Spain at the end of the Dominican Restoration War in 1865, when the Second Dominican Republic was proclaimed. [3]
Some Haitians, however, claim that the area on the side of the wall facing Haiti is a no-man’s-land and that even if it isn’t, the Dominican Republic ceded its rights to that side once it ...