Era de Francia
Saint-Domingue | |||||||||
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1795–1809 | |||||||||
French, Spanish | |||||||||
Demonym(s) | Dominican | ||||||||
Government | Republic (1792-1804) | ||||||||
Governor | |||||||||
• 1801–1802 | Toussaint Louverture | ||||||||
• 1802–1803 | Antoine Nicolas Kerverseau | ||||||||
• 1803–1808 | Jean-Louis Ferrand | ||||||||
• 1808–1809 | Gen. Dubarquier | ||||||||
History | |||||||||
• Peace of Basel | July 22, 1795 | ||||||||
• Reestablishment of Spanish rule | July 9, 1809 | ||||||||
Currency | Santo Domingo peso | ||||||||
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Today part of | Dominican Republic |
In the
During this time, it was also referred to as the French Santo Domingo.[3]
Background
In 1665, French colonization
The Spanish colony on the other hand sank lower than ever. Practically abandoned by Spain, there was no commerce beyond a little contraband and only the most indispensable agriculture, the inhabitants devoting themselves almost entirely to cattle raising. The ports were the haunts of pirates, and a number of Dominicans also became privateers.[4] The Dominican privateer Lorenzo Daniel became the scourge of the British, from whom he proceeded to plunder 70 merchant ships as well as warships.[5][6]
The division of Hispaniola between France and Spain in 1697 recognized a reality with which neither the Kings nor their Revolutionary successors were happy. Although the population of Spanish Santo Domingo was perhaps one-fourth that of French Saint-Domingue, this did not prevent Charles IV of Spain from launching an invasion of the French side of the island in 1793, attempting to take advantage of the chaos sparked by the French Revolution (1789–99).[7] Although the Spanish military effort went well on Hispaniola, it did not so in Europe. As a consequence, Spain was forced to cede Santo Domingo to the French under the terms of the Treaty of Basel (July 22, 1795) in order to get the French to withdraw from Spain.
News that the Spanish colony had been ceded to France reached Santo Domingo in October 1795. Those who could not reconcile themselves to the new situation had up to a year to remove themselves to Cuba, Puerto Rico, or Venezuela, where they were to be given facilities to make a fresh start.[8] Between 1795 and 1810 some 125,000 persons are estimated to have left the Spanish sector of the island, leaving its population diminished by two-thirds compared with what it had been before the French Revolution.[8]
French occupation
At the time, slaves led by
In 1805, after crowning himself Emperor, Jean-Jacques Dessalines invaded, reaching Santo Domingo before retreating in the face of a French naval squadron. The Haitians fell back through the settled area of the interior, sacking the towns of Monte Plata, Cotui and La Vega, and slaughtering the citizens of Moca and Santiago. They left the fields laid waste, the cities ablaze and the churches in ashes behind them.[8] In Moca only two people survived, thanks to corpses having been piled up on those still living in the church where the principal massacre took place.[8]
In October 1808 the rich landowner Juan Sánchez Ramírez, who had fled Santo Domingo during French rule to Puerto Rico, landed along the northeast coast and began a rebellion in the name of Ferdinand VII against the French colonial administrators in the city of Santo Domingo. The insurgents received aid from Spanish Puerto Rico and British Jamaica. The British blockaded the capital and occupied the port of Samaná; Sánchez defeated those loyal to France at Palo Hincado on November 7. On July 9, 1809, the British captured the city of Santo Domingo and as a consequence returned the eastern part of Hispaniola to Spanish rule.
Ironically, the Dominicans had gone to war against the French to restore Spanish rule to Santo Domingo just as the rest of Hispanic America was preparing to renounce Spanish colonialism. Moreover, the so-called War of Reconquest, following two invasions by the Haitians, had left the colony completely devastated.[8]
Governors (1801-1809)
- 1801-1802 Toussaint Louverture
- 1802-1803 Antoine Nicolas Kerverseau
- 1803-1808 Louis Marie Ferrand
- 1808-1809 L. Dubarquier
See also
References
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- ^ a b Schoenrich, Otto (1918). Santo Domingo: a Country with a Future. New York: Macmillan Company. p. 28.
- ^ Roorda, Eric Paul; Derby, Lauren H.; González, Raymundo (2014). The Dominican Republic Reader: History, Culture, Politics. Duke University Press. p. 112.
- ^ Roorda, Eric Paul (2016). Historical Dictionary of the Dominican Republic. Lanham, MD: Rowman & Littlefield. p. 174.
- ^ Scheina, Robert L. (2003). Latin America's Wars: Volume 1. Potomac Books.
- ^ a b c d e f Bethell, Leslie (1984). The Cambridge History of Latin America: Volume 3. Cambridge University Press. pp. 245–48.