Spanish occupation of the Dominican Republic

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Province of Santo Domingo Provincia de Santo Domingo
Province of Spain
1861–1865
Flag Coat of Arms
Map of the Spanish Province of Santo Domingo (1861)
Anthem
Marcha Real
Demonym	Dominican
Population
• 1860	200,000
Government
• Type	Captaincy General
Queen
• 1861-1865	Isabella II of Spain
Governor-General
• 1861-1862	Pedro Santana
• 1864-1865	José de la Gándara
History
• Reincorporation of Santo Domingo	1861
• Reinstablishment of Dominican Republic	1865
Today part of	Dominican Republic

The Reintegration of Santo Domingo (Spanish: Reintegración de Santo Domingo) was a brief period of Spanish reintegration of the Dominican Republic. In 1861, Dominican general Pedro Santana suggested retaking control of the Dominican Republic to Queen Isabella II of Spain, after a period of 17 years of Dominican sovereignty. The newly independent Dominican Republic was recovering economically from the recently ended Dominican War of Independence (1844–1856), when the Dominican Republic had won its independence against Haiti. The Spanish Crown and authorities, which scorned and rejected the peace treaties signed after the dismantling of some of its colonies in the Spanish West Indies some 50 years prior, welcomed his proposal and set to reestablish the Capitancy.

The end of the American Civil War in 1865 and the re-assertion of the Monroe Doctrine by the United States, which was no longer involved in internal conflict and which possessed enormously expanded and modernized military forces as a result of the war, prompted the evacuation of Spanish forces back to Cuba that same year.