Opening page, Histoire de l'Isle Espagnole ou de S. Domingue

Opening page, Histoire de l'Isle Espagnole ou de S. Domingue [History of the Spanish Island or of San Domingo], based on the memoirs of Jean-Baptiste le Pers, Jesuit priest and missionary, and the writings of Pierre-Francois-Xavier de Charlevoix, Jesuit priest. Volume Two. The island, also known as Hispaniola, is now divided into two separate nations: Haiti to the west (French Creole-speaking), and the Dominican Republic to the east (Spanish-speaking). Illustrated with a battle scene of 1690, showing
the forces of the Governor, Pierre-Paul Tarin de Cussy, defeating the Spanish in a pre-emptive attack on the border town of Santiago de los Caballeros. On 6 July of that year Cussy entered the town at the head of an army of 1, 400 men and burnt it to the ground

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