| | History of Haiti Article, HistoryHaiti Information (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-10) |
 | | The Spaniards used the island of Hispaniola - also known as Haiti, Quisqueya, and Bohio (of which the Republic of Haiti occupies the western third and the DominicanRepublic the remainder in the modern era) - as a base in the early 16thcentury from which to establish European domination of the so-called "New World". |
 | | Haiti's indigenous Arawak (or Taíno)population suffered near-extinction in the decades after Christopher Columbus 's arrival in 1492, in possibly the worstcase of the widespread depopulation which followed the first European contact with the Americas. |
 | | The United States military occupation of July 28, 1915, followed after the mob execution of Haiti's leader, but was largely justified to the public as a consolidationof American control in the face of a possible German invasion of the Island, an unfounded claim playing on hysteria related to World War I. |
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