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1495-03-27

Ojeda’s Castilians capture Caonabo and Guarionex

Haitian

Christopher Columbus, before returning to Spain, after the discovery of Haiti, had established a fort at Caracol. During the admiral’s absence, the garrison he had left there having drawn upon itself, by the excesses in which it indulged, the hatred of the natives, whose character was so gentle, the cacique Caonabo, of the kingdom of Maguana (Saint-Jean), armed his people against it; all the Spaniards who composed it were killed. This was the cause of the founding of the new settlements near the Isabelic point, between Monte-Christ and Puerto-Plata. The port and the town, the construction of which was then begun, received from Columbus the name of Isabelle, in recognition of the queen’s generosity toward him. It was from there that, on 27 March 1495, those audacious Castilians, commanded by Alphonse Ojeda, set out, who carried off by ruse the valiant Caonabo and the unfortunate Guarionex, cacique of the kingdom of Magua (Vega). From then on there broke out between the indigenous people and the Spaniards the war whose result was enslavement first, and then the total extinction of…

Rouzier tells this under the entry Caracol.

Source  ·  p. t. I, p. 186 Sémexant Rouzier, Dictionnaire géographique et administratif universel d'Haïti (t. I) (1892), p. t. I, p. 186