Hispaniola island History. .. A little history: How did it happen? Too late to fix it...But, now what can we do? By 1805, Dessalines invaded the eastern part of the island and only pulled his forces back from capturing Santo Domingo when reports reached him that a French naval squadron was approaching Haiti. By 1808, the Haitians, in their ongoing struggle against the French, helped Spanish colonists who had returned to Santo Domingo to expel the French. Santo Domingo was then returned to Spanish rule. Under the Spanish the colony plunged into economic decline. This period, known as EspaZa Boba ( Foolish Spain), convinced the Dominicans to seek independence along the same lines as Simon Bolivar’s Latin American state. On November 30, 1821, Jose Nunez de Caceres announced the colony’s independence under the name of Spanish Haiti, and sought to gain admission to the State of Gran Colombia created by Simon Bolivar. However, before the Dominican request could be ratified, the troops of the Haitian president, Jean Pierre Boyer, invaded the new nation, unifying the island. From 1822 to 1844, the Dominican Republic and Haiti were united. In 1844, the Dominicans took advantage of the fall of President Boyer of Haiti, and regained their independence. The rebellion was carried out by the Trinitaria movement, founded by Juan Pablo Duarte in 1838. The Haitians repeatedly tried to invade the new nation; their last attempt only ended in 1855. A boundary agreement was finally signed between the two nations in 1936, establishing the definitive border between the Dominican Republic and Haiti. Charles Rivière Hérard also known as Charles Hérard Ainé was an officer in the Haitian Army Under André Pétion during his struggles with Henry Christophe. Rivière Hérard was born at Port-au-Prince on February 16 1789. Nothing about his early life is generally known, except that he fought with the revolutionnaries against the french and that he was an officer. Among the conspirators who ousted President Boyer during the 1843 Revolution Rivière Hérard was chief. Whithout Hérards approval, on December 30 on that same year, a Provisional Parliament of Haiti enacted a new Constitution. Soon afterward, General Hérard, who had the loyalty of the army, seized control of the government, and proclaimed himself President of Haiti. He was during Hérard governance that the Eastern part of Haiti (Santo Domingo) declared its independence from Haiti on February 28, 1844. Facing increasing opposition in the government and a rapidly deteriorating political situation whithin the country, on March 30, 1844, Hérard dissolve the new Constitution and the Parliament. Hérard went into exile on June 2, 1844, ressetling in Jamaica where he died on August 31, 1850. Jean-Louis Piérrot was a veteran of the war of independence and King Henry Christophes brother-in-law. Piérot became president at the age of 84. He refused to live in Port-au-Prince and designated Cap-Haitien the capital of Haiti. President Piérrot was obsessed with the idea of punishing the Dominicans for having declared their independence on February, 1844. A short war broke out between the two neighbors without a clear victor. President Piérrot was overthrown in a Coup détat on March 24, 1846. He died on February 18, 1857 at the age of 96.
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