Battle of Fuente del Rodeo
Battle of Fuente del Rodeo | |||||||
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Part of the Dominican War of Independence | |||||||
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Dominican Republic | Haiti | ||||||
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Fernando Taveras Vicente Noble Dionisio Reyes | Charles Rivière-Hérard |
The Battle of Fuente del Rodeo was the first armed encounter against Haiti in the Dominican War of Independence. It was fought on the 13 March 1844 in the province of Bahoruco. A force of Dominican troops, a portion of the Army of the South, led by General Fernando Taveras, defeated an outnumbering force of the Haitian Army led by Charles Rivière-Hérard. The Dominicans fought with stones, knives, machetes, lances, clubs and rifles.[1][2]
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Categories:
- Conflicts in 1844
- Battles of the Dominican War of Independence
- 1844 in the Dominican Republic
- March 1844 events