Battle of Sabana Larga
Battle of Sabana Larga | |||||||
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Part of the Dominican War of Independence | |||||||
![]() Dajabón Province | |||||||
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Strength | |||||||
6,500–8,000[1][2] | 8,000–22,000[1][2] | ||||||
Casualties and losses | |||||||
236 killed[1] | 1,000+ killed[1] Hundreds of prisoners[1] 2 artillery pieces captured[1] |
The Battle of Sabana Larga (Spanish: Batalla de Sabana Larga) was a major battle during the years after the Dominican War of Independence. It was fought on 24 January 1856 in Sabana Larga, Dajabón. A force of 8,000 Dominican troops of the northern army, led by General Juan Luis Franco Bidó, defeated a numerically larger force of 22,000 troops of the Haitian Army under Emperor Faustin I.[2] Another part of the Haitian army was entrenched in Jácuba near Puerto Plata, but were defeated by Florentino and General Peter Lucas Peña.
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[edit]Bibliography
[edit]- Clodfelter, Micheal (2017). Warfare and Armed Conflicts: A Statistical Encyclopedia of Casualty and Other Figures, 1492–2015 (4th ed.). McFarland.