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Home > Haiti Historical Treaties > Treaty Of Basel Treaty Of Basel It apears there were two treaties signed Basel, Switzerland in 1795
The French and Austrians reached a Peace agreement at Basel Switzerland on April 5, 1795. This is known as the first treaty of basel.
Under the terms of the treaty France returned all of the lands captured during the war with the exception of land along the west side of the Rhine.
Treaty of Basel that involves Haiti was signed on July 22, 1795.
Spain and France made peace. Spain ceded two thirds of the island of Haiti to France.
Source: http://www.historycentral.com/dates/1790ad.html
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Source: The university of California, San Diego
http://sshl.ucsd.edu/collections/las/dominicanrepublic/1791.html
Moya Pons 1995: The war between France and Spain ends with a peace treaty signed on July 22, 1795 in Basel, Switzerland (page 99).
"The Treaty of Basel stated that the King of Spain would cede and abandon to the French Republic all property in the Spanish part of the island of Santo Domingo.
It further stipulated that the Spanish troops would promptly evacuate the towns, ports, and establishments and would surrender them to French troops when they arrived.
It was conceded that the inhabitants of Santo Domingo would have one year, from the date of the treaty, to relocate.
Confusion prevailed among the Spanish population: British corsairs posed a threat to those leaving the colony and, to make matters worse, there was little certainty of finding a new home in other Spanish territories" (page 101).
The evacuation does not take place.
Sagás 2000: "Spain, after having been defeated by France in Europe, had to cede its Santo Domingo colony to the French in order to regain the territory that it had lost in the Iberian peninsula during the war.
The cession was rendered official by the Treaty of Basel in 1795. However, the French had no way of occupying Santo Domingo.
They could not even control their own colony of Saint-Domingue, then under the effective control of Toussaint" (page 27).
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