Republic of Spanish Haiti

The Republic of Spanish Haiti, also called the State of Santo Domingo, was the unrecognised breakaway state that followed the Captaincy General of Santo Domingo after independence was declared on 1 December 1821 by José Núñez de Cáceres. Its constitution declared the new state a part of Gran Colombia, and its flag and arms were taken from the Colombian model. The republic was the ephemeral independence of Santo Domingo: it lived from December 1821 to February 1822, when the Republic of Haiti, which had watched the eastern half with suspicion since its own revolution, annexed it on 9 February. Spain, bled by its American wars, had been unable to hold the colony properly since its restoration in 1809, and the criollo elite preferred union with Colombia to Haitian rule, until Boyer's troops marched in and ended the experiment. The island would not know a Dominican state again until the proclamation of 1844.