1808 battle of the Spanish reconquest of Santo Domingo
Battle of Palo Hincado
Part of the Spanish reconquest of Santo Domingo and the Napoleonic Wars
The Battle of Palo Hincado Monument in the Dominican Republic.
Date
November 7, 1808
Location
Near El Seibo, Colony of Santo Domingo
Result
Dominican-Spanish victory
Belligerents
Santo Domingo
France
Commanders and leaders
Juan Sánchez Ramírez
Jean-Louis Ferrand †
Strength
1,800[1]
500[1]
Casualties and losses
52 killed and wounded
400 killed, wounded and captured[1]
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Reconquista of Santo Domingo 1808–1809
Palo Hincado
Santo Domingo
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West Indies campaign (1803–1810)
Saint-Domingue
St Lucia • Tobago • Demerara • Essequibo and Berbice
Surinam
Diamond Rock
San Domingo
Havana
Samaná
Jeune Richard
Danish West Indies
Palo Hincado
Santo Domingo
French Guiana
Pointe Noire
Martinique
Leeward Islands
Troude's expedition
Roquebert's expedition
Guadeloupe
The Battle of Palo Hincado (Palo Hincado Stands for "Kneeling Stick") was the first major battle of the Spanish reconquest of Santo Domingo of the Spanish colonial Captaincy General of Santo Domingo, that was occupied by the French in the Spanish West Indies. The site is in the present-day Dominican Republic, on the island of Hispaniola in the Caribbean.
The battle was fought on November 7, 1808, at Palo Hincado savanna, near El Seibo in the colony of Santo Domingo. A force of 1,800 pro-Spanish Dominican troops, led by General Juan Sánchez Ramírez, defeated a force of 500 troops of French Army of Napoleon, led by Governor General Jean-Louis Ferrand.[2]
^ abcClodfelter 2017, p. 145.
^Picó, Fernando (2012). One Frenchman, Four Revolutions. Princeton, NJ: Markus Wiener Publishers. ISBN 9781558765627.
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