Battle of Sabana Larga

Battle of Sabana Larga
	Part of the Dominican War of Independence
	; Dajabón Province
Date	24 January 1856
Location	Sabana Larga, near Dajabón
Result	Dominican victory
Belligerents
Dominican Republic	Empire of Haiti
Commanders and leaders
Juan Luis Franco Bidó ; Gaspar Polanco ; Pedro Florentino ; Lucas Peña	Faustin I of Haiti ; Gen. Cayemite ; Gen. Prophete
Strength
6,500–8,000	8,000–22,000
Casualties and losses
236 killed	1,000+ killed; Hundreds of prisoners; 2 artillery pieces captured

The Battle of 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.

References

^ ^a ^b ^c ^d ^e ^f "La batalla de Sabana Larga" (PDF) (in Spanish).
^ ^a ^b ^c Clodfelter 2017, p. 302.

Bibliography

Clodfelter, Micheal (2017). Warfare and Armed Conflicts: A Statistical Encyclopedia of Casualty and Other Figures, 1492–2015 (4th ed.). McFarland.

[Roman-1] ^ ^a ^b ^c ^d ^e ^f "La batalla de Sabana Larga" (PDF) (in Spanish).

[FOOTNOTEClodfelter2017302-2] Clodfelter 2017, p. 302.

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