Draft:Domínguez's Expedition to Honduras

The Dominguez's Expedition to Honduras was an unsuccessful expedition of the Mexican commander, Vicente Domínguez, with the military support of Spain, also supported by mexican, salvadoran, guatemalan, French, Haitian, and garifuna mercenaries.

Domínguez's Expedition to Honduras
Date November 11 of 1831 to May 5 of 1832 (6 months) Location Honduras Result Honduran victory Honduran independence confirmed
Combatant
Honduras	El Salvador Spain Mexican mercenaries Guatemalan mercenaries Haitian mercenaries French Mercenaries
Commanders and leaders
Francisco Morazán José Trinidad Cabañas José Antonio Márquez José Rosario López Plata Máximo Menéndez Francisco Ferrera Manuel Pardo Concepción Cardona José Santos Guardiola	Vicente Domínguez  Manuel José Arce y Fagoaga Ramón Guzmán   Vicente Hoyos   José María Cornejo
Strength
1,500	Unknown
Casualties and losses
300 killed	Unknown

Background

The States of Central America begin their independent journey within the isthmus, they also begin with ideological political differences, engaging in rivalries and starting wars among themselves. Since 1827, the proclaimed General Francisco Morazán with his Victory in the Battle of La Trinidad began with a unionist idea that encompassed the States of Central America, Guatemala, El Salvador, Honduras, Nicaragua, and Costa Rica, and that also included within that conception of "Nation" the indigenous peoples and ethnic groups that lived within each state. For strong differences in politics within the Central American assemblies,instead of unifying, they became involved in the so-called "Central American Civil Wars."

In Honduras it began with the idea of ​​"hondureñidad" but the ethnic groups and above all, the black Caribbeans, former slaves of the mines, felt relegated; it is for this reason that they joined the conservative cause that tried to return the Spanish monarchical regime ruled by Ferdinand VII to govern America and the "Los Serviles Party" was founded, sympathetic to the Conservative Party of Central America and the battalion with which they supported Domínguez's cause was baptized as "Satuye Battalion."