Haiti revolted against colonialism at the end of 1803, becoming the first slave nation in the world. The Spanish colonized Haiti between 1492 and 1625 and then the French (1625-1804), and the Americans occupied it from 1915-1934.
The U.S. refused to recognize this revolution for 60 years in an attempt to impose its hegemony on Haiti, but rather strived to thwart it politically, economically and security. Haiti is the third largest country in the Greater Antilles in the Caribbean Sea after Cuba and the Dominican Republic.