Spanish occupation of the Dominican Republic
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The Reintegration of Santo Domingo (Spanish: Reintegración de Santo Domingo) was a brief period of Spanish reintegration of the Dominican Republic. In 1861, Dominican general Pedro Santana suggested retaking control of the Dominican Republic to Queen Isabella II of Spain, after a period of 17 years of Dominican sovereignty. The newly independent Dominican Republic was recovering economically from the recently ended Dominican War of Independence (1844–1856), when the Dominican Republic had won its independence against Haiti. The Spanish Crown and authorities, which scorned and rejected the peace treaties signed after the dismantling of some of its colonies in the Spanish West Indies some 50 years prior, welcomed his proposal and set to reestablish the Capitancy.
Province of Santo Domingo | |||||||||
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1861–1865 | |||||||||
Status | Spanish Overseas Province | ||||||||
Capital | Santo Domingo | ||||||||
Common languages | Spanish | ||||||||
Government | Monarchy | ||||||||
Queen | |||||||||
• 1861–1865 | Isabella II of Spain | ||||||||
Captain General | |||||||||
• 1861–1862 | Pedro Santana | ||||||||
• 1864–1865 | José de la Gándara | ||||||||
History | |||||||||
• Established | 1861 | ||||||||
• Restoration of Dominican sovereignty | 1865 | ||||||||
Currency | Santo Domingo peso, Spanish peso | ||||||||
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The end of the American Civil War in 1865 and the re-assertion of the Monroe Doctrine by the United States, which was no longer involved in internal conflict and which possessed enormously expanded and modernized military forces as a result of the war, prompted the evacuation of Spanish forces back to Cuba that same year.