President Buenaventura Báez of the Dominican Republic left the capital to the rebels under General Pedro Santana, ending what became known as the Revolution of 1857. (By John Osborne)
Source Citation
The American Almanac and Repository of Useful Knowledge for the Year 1859 (Boston: Crosby, Nichols, and Company, 1859), 370.
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