The Battle of Santomé () was a major battle during the years after the

Dominican War of Independence The Dominican War of Independence () was a war of independence that began when the Dominican Republic declared independence from the Republic of Haiti on February 27, 1844 and ended on January 24, 1856. Before the war, the island of Hispaniola ...

and was fought on 22 December 1855, in the province of

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. A detachment of Dominican troops forming part of the Army of the South, led by General José María Cabral, defeated an outnumbering force of the Haitian Army led by Antoine Pierrot. Almost 700 Haitian soldiers perished in the battle, and the rest, many of them wounded, were forced to retreat, being pushed back as far as the Fortress of Cachimán and subsequently beyond the border. The Haitians met defeat on the same day at the Battle of Cambronal.

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