1915-July-28
1915-July-28: United States Marines land in Port-au-Prince, beginning a military occupation that would last nineteen years.
1915-July-28: United States Marines land in Port-au-Prince, beginning a military occupation that would last nineteen years. The intervention was triggered by political chaos and the strategic interests of the U.S. in the Caribbean. The invasion was initially welcomed by many Syrian traders and members of the mulatto elite who feared the radicalism of Rosalvo Bobo.
Source · p. 146
Nicholls, From Dessalines to Duvalier, 146