Republic of Haiti

This article is about the specific polity Republic of Haiti and therefore only includes events related to its territory and not to its possessions or colonies. If you are interested in the possession, this is the link to the article about the nation which includes all possessions as well as all the different incarnations of the nation.

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Is a French-speaking country in the Caribbean that occupies the western portion of the island of Hispaniola. After initially gaining indipendence from France in the early XIX century during the Haitian Revolution, it was split in two countries (a northern and southern part) that later merged. It assumed its modern Republican form in 1859.

Establishment

January 1859: The Emperorof Haiti abdicated his throne.

Chronology

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1. Banana Wars

were a series of conflicts that consisted of military occupation, police action, and intervention by the United States in Central America and the Caribbean between the end of the Spanish-American War in 1898 and the inception of the Good Neighbor Policy in 1934.

1.1.United States occupation of Haiti

Was the U.S. invasion and occupation of Haiti. The reason was the protection of American interests in the country.

July 1915: American President Woodrow Wilson ordered 330 U.S. Marines to occupy Port-au-Prince, the capital of the Republic of Haiti.

November 1915: In 1915, during the United States military occupation of Haiti, the Marines, led by General Smedley Butler, captured Fort Rivière from the Haitian Cacos rebels.

May 1916: End of the American occupation of Haiti.

December 1924: U.S. forces reoccupy Haiti.

August 1934: The last contingent of U.S. Marines departed from Haiti after a formal transfer of authority to the Garde.