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Battle of Sabana Larga
Part of the Dominican War of Independence
Dajabón Province
Date 24 January 1856 Location Sabana Larga, near Dajabón Result Dominican victory
Belligerents
Dominican Republic	Haiti
Commanders and leaders
Juan Luis Franco Bidó Gaspar Polanco Pedro Florentino Lucas de Peña Eusebio Puello	Faustin I of Haiti Gen. Cayemite Gen. Prophete
Strength
6,500–8,000	8,000–22,000
Casualties and losses
236 killed	1,000+ killed Hundreds of prisoners 2 artillery pieces captured

The Battle of Sabana Larga (Spanish: Batalla de Sabana Larga) was a major battle during the years after the Dominican War of Independence. It was fought on 24 January 1856 in Sabana Larga, Dajabón. A force of 8,000 Dominican troops of the northern army, led by General Juan Luis Franco Bidó, defeated a numerically larger force of 22,000 troops of the Haitian Army under Emperor Faustin I. Another part of the Haitian army was entrenched in Jácuba near Puerto Plata, but were defeated by Florentino and General Peter Lucas Peña.

References

1. ^ "La batalla de Sabana Larga" (PDF) (in Spanish).
2. ^ Clodfelter 2017, p. 302.

Bibliography

• Clodfelter, Micheal (2017). Warfare and Armed Conflicts: A Statistical Encyclopedia of Casualty and Other Figures, 1492–2015 (4th ed.). McFarland.

• Dominican War of Independence
• Battles involving the Dominican Republic
• Battles involving Haiti
• Battles of the Dominican War of Independence
• Conflicts in 1856
• 1856 in the Dominican Republic
• 1856 in Haiti
• January 1856 events