Timeline (Cuban Butterflies)

1848: - Spain, fearing another revolt by Carlist supporters, as well as having a more general lack of money from the previous revolt, decide to take President Polk of the United States up on his offer of purchasing their main colony in the Caribbean, Cuba, for $100 million - This did not include the island Puerto Rico.

1861: - The American Civil War begins with the Union President - Charles Sumner, ordering an attack on the Confederate shipping surrounding Fort Sumter. - In early December the British declare war on the United States in support of the Confederate states after the Trent Affair. - Days after Britain declares war on the Union, the French follows suit. - The Spanish Empire is offered the Dominican Republic by its President, as the nation was in economic turmoil. Isabella accepts and so the Dominican Republic is re-annexed into the Spanish Empire as Saint Domingo, it rapidly comes to dominate Spain's Empire in the Caribbean.

1862: - After the Dominican Civil War the Spanish annex Haiti into the Spanish Empire as a protectorate, attached to Saint Domingo.