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I'm Dominican and having been educated over there (in both public and private schools) I remember from history class that the teaching was that Haiti invaded the country, when what really happened was as the article above described.
Now, where may see this as conspiracy or remnants of Trujillo antihaitianismo campaigns I blame ignorance and a deficient education system (i.e. [math teachers in the D.R. only understand 42 percent of the material the are teaching] (http://www.dw.de/dominican-republic-revamps-failing-education-system/a-17625149)); for decades the whole system was underfunded and routinely even the small amount allocated for education was transferred for other projects when it wasn't outright stolen.
In fact, a common lie that is repeated often (even by some that think themselves intellectuals) is that the Haitian constitution says that the whole island belongs to them; this is based on the fact that when Haiti was born as a republic in 1804 the whole island indeed was a French colony [as a result of the Peace of Basil treaty between France and Spain] (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dominican_Republic#Spanish_and_French_rule).
So when the first Haitian constitution was drafted in 1805 the boundaries of Haiti were in fact the whole island, but not anymore. But in the Dominican Republic if you care about history and want to know what really happened, just go to the nearest library and read a history book.
Frank Moya Pons is a Dominican historian and author of [The Dominican Republic: A National History] (http://www.amazon.com/Dominican-Republic-National-History/dp/1558765190/ref=sr_1_1?s=books&ie=UTF8&qid=1416203616&sr=1-1&keywords=frank+moya+pons) and you can find the information posted in the article above, plus the fact that when Juan Pierre Boyer arrived with his army at Santo Domingo, he was given the keys to the city by José Nuñez de Caceres (the last Spanish governor and creator of the short lived "Haiti Español" republic) and a mass was held in Boyer's honor as "president of the republic".