Editing Dominican Republic (section)

===Ephemeral independence and Haitian occupation===
{{Main|Republic of Spanish Haiti|Haitian occupation of Santo Domingo}}
After a dozen years of discontent and failed independence plots by various opposing groups, including a [[1812 Mendoza and Mojarra conspiracy|failed 1812 revolt]] led by [[Freedman|freedmen]], Santo Domingo's former Lieutenant-Governor (top administrator), [[José Núñez de Cáceres]], declared the colony's independence from the [[Spanish Empire|Spanish crown]] as [[Republic of Spanish Haiti|Spanish Haiti]], on November 30, 1821. This period is also known as the Ephemeral independence.<ref name="Bethell1986">{{cite book|author=H. Hoetink|editor=Leslie Bethell|title=The Cambridge History of Latin America|chapter-url=https://books.google.com/books?id=X4axAmBS-7wC&pg=PA287|volume=V, Circa 1870 to 1930|date=May 29, 1986|publisher=Cambridge University Press|isbn=978-0-521-24517-3|page=287|chapter=The Dominican Republic c. 1870–930|access-date=October 27, 2016|archive-date=January 11, 2024|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20240111004150/https://books.google.com/books?id=X4axAmBS-7wC&pg=PA287#v=onepage&q&f=false|url-status=live}}</ref>

The newly independent republic ended two months later, when it was occupied and annexed by Haiti, then under the leadership of [[Jean-Pierre Boyer]].<ref name="guitar">{{cite web |last = Guitar |first = Lynne |title = History of the Dominican Republic |publisher = Hola.com |url = http://www.hispaniola.com/dominican_republic/info/history.php |access-date = May 29, 2007 |url-status=dead |archive-url = https://web.archive.org/web/20070601040005/http://www.hispaniola.com/dominican_republic/info/history.php |archive-date = June 1, 2007 |df = mdy-all }}</ref> For twenty-two years, Haiti controlled Santo Domingo, which it called ''Partie de l'Est'', treating it as a colonial territory. The unpaid Haitian army sustained itself by taking resources from the Dominican people and land without compensation.{{sfn|Scheina|2003|p=343}}