- Date
- July 28, 1915 – August 1, 1934
- Location
- Haiti
- Result
- American victory
- Part of
- Banana Wars
- Conflict
- Haitian Campaign 1915
About the battle
The United States occupation of Haiti began on July 28, 1915, when 330 US Marines landed at Port-au-Prince, Haiti, after the National City Bank of New York (now Citibank) convinced US President Woodrow Wilson to take control of the country's political and financial interests. The occupation took place following years of socioeconomic instability within Haiti that culminated with the lynching of Haitian President Vilbrun Guillaume Sam by a mob angered by his executions of political prisoners. During the occupation, Haiti had three new presidents while the United States ruled as a military regime through martial law, led by Marines and the US-created Gendarmerie of Haiti. A corvée system of forced labor was used by the US for infrastructure projects, resulting in hundreds to thousands of deaths.
From the Wikipedia article “United States occupation of Haiti”, CC BY-SA 4.0. Result, date and location from the article’s infobox and Wikidata.
