Juan Sánchez Ramírez
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| Governor of Second Spanish Colony of Santo Domingo (1809-1821) | |
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In office December 13, 1808 – February 11, 1811 |
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| Succeeded by | Manuel Caballero y Masot |
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| Born | 1762 Cotuí, Captaincy General of Santo Domingo (later the Dominican Republic) |
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February 11, 1811 ?? |
| Nationality | Dominican and Spanish |
| Residence | Santo Domingo, Puerto Rico (1803–1807) |
| Profession | Politician and Captain general |
Juan Sánchez Ramírez (1762–1811) was a Spanish soldier and a Dominican Captain general who ruled the modern Dominican Republic between 1808 and 1811, and commanded the troops that fought against the French rule of Santo Domingo´s colony between 1808 and 1809 in the Battle of Palo Hincado, resulting in a victory over the French, and the return of Santo Domingo to Spanish hands.
Juan Sánchez Ramírez was born in 1762 in Cotuí, Santo Domingo. According to historian Francisco A. Rincón (author of La Mejorada Villa del Cotuy or, in English, The Improved Cotuy Ville), he was the son of Miguel Sanchez and Francisca Ramirez. Juan Sanchez Ramirez had two brothers: Remigio, who accompanied him in his military struggles, and Rafael, Magistrate of Cotuí during the Haitian occupation. His father was a Spanish member of the military and a wealthy landowner. Juan Sánchez Ramírez was educated by the priest Pichardo y Delmonte. When he was young, he joined a company of lancers formed by the townspeople.
Ramírez was magistrate of Cotuí where he, ever since his youth, held various important positions.
In 1793, the Haitian Toussaint Louverture seized the eastern part of the island, and abolished slavery. In 1802, after sending Santo Domingo´s colony to France with the Treaty of Basel in 1795, around fifty thousand soldiers came to Spanish Santo Domingo under the command of the French Leclerc. These soldiers defeated Toussaint and took over this side of the island. Nevertheless, the Haitians and French occupied the lands belonging to Juan Sánchez Ramirez, and to almost all Spaniards living in the colony of Santo Domingo.
Ramírez began his career as a soldier in the Spanish Army, fighting against the French occupation in order to maintain the Dominican nationality and identity. He requested assistance from the British army established in Jamaica, to force the French to surrender Santo Domingo. However, the French refused to surrender the colony to the Dominican army, because the Dominicans were dressed in rags, and they said that this fact was an embarrassment for France. So it was France that finally occupied the colony.
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