Dominican Restoration War

early sixteenth-century fortress built by the Spaniards

1861 Santo Domingo Rejoins Spain as an overseas province

thumb|Depiction of Cuban insurgents in the tropical forest (manigua), ca. 1879-1880 The mambises were the guerrilla independence soldiers who fought for the independence from Spain of the Dominican Republic in the Dominican Restoration War (1863–1865), and of Cuba in the Ten Years' War (1868–1878), Little War (1879–1880), and Cuban War of Independence (1895–1898).

history museum in Puerto Plata, Dominican Republic