The Dominican Independence War gave the Dominican Republic independence from Haiti in 1844. Before the war, the whole island of Hispaniola had been under Haitian rule for 22 years when Haiti occupied the newly independent state of Haití Español in 1822.
Juan Pablo Duarte was young, educated, a genuine nationalist, and the man that helped lead and inspire the Dominican War of Independence of 1844. Duarte, along with Matías Ramón Mella and Francisc...
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The Dominican Independence War gave the Dominican Republic independence from Haiti in 1844. Before the war, the whole island of Hispaniola had been under Haitian rule for 22 years when Haiti occupied the newly independent state of Haití Español in 1822.
Juan Pablo Duarte was young, educated, a genuine nationalist, and the man that helped lead and inspire the Dominican War of Independence of 1844. Duarte, along with Matías Ramón Mella and Francisco del Rosario Sánchez, founded a resistance movement in 1838 called La Trinitaria ("The Trinity"). It was so named because its original nine members had organized themselves into cells of three. The cells went on to recruit as separate organizations, maintaining strict secrecy, with little or no direct contact among themselves, in order to minimize the possibility of detection by the Haitian authorities. Many recruits quickly came to the group, but it was discovered and forced to change its name to La Filantrópica (literally "The Philanthropic...
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