to Spain or reincorporate it after winning Ferrand and France, in the Battle of Palo Hincado, who applied the Treaty of Basel in 1804, through which Spain ceded this part of the Island to France in 1795. Spain was under the Napoleonic invasion, which prevented meeting the requirements of the reacquired colony. Sánchez was the son of Olaya del Rosario Belén (1791–1849), a creole woman of light complexion who descends from European (Canarian) and African ancestors, and Narciso "Seño Narcisazo" Sánchez Ramona (1789–1869), a tall man who is a descendant of slaves. Because of their different racial and social-economical status (hers being superior to his), Narciso Sánchez and Olaya del Rosario married after a special authorisation given by the mayor. His mother was a hairdresser who produced combs, while his father worked in the meat trade, selling, butchering and raising cattle. His surnames are inverted because his parents were not married at the time of his birth, marrying in 1819. Sanchez had six children with several different women, the first being Felícita Martínez, with whom he procreated Mónica, born on January 30, 1838, when Sánchez was 20 years old. Some years later he procreated María Gregoria (Goyita), born on November 30, 1841, with María Evarista Hinojosa. Later, with Leoncia Leydes Rodríguez from Curaçao, he had Leoncia. Later with Mercedes Pembrén Chevalier he procreated Petronila. On April 4, 1849, he married Balbina de Peña Pérez, with whom he procreated Juan Francisco and Manuel de Jesús. His son Juan Francisco was Minister of Finance in the government of Ulises Heureaux and was part of the government cabinet of also President Carlos Morales Languasco. Manuel de Jesús, on the other hand, died in infancy. The eldest of 11 children, Sánchez grew up in a very nationalistic family. He first received his education from his mother, and later by the Peruvian priest Gaspar Hernández, a patriot who encouraged the young Sánchez to follow in his family's footsteps. He was also influenced by his father and aunt, Maria Trinidad Sánchez, both involved in the movement "Revolution of Los Alcarrizos," an early resistance that attempted to libertate Dominicans from Haitian rule under the dictatorship of Jean-Pierre Boyer, who invaded in 1822 and brought the whole island under his control. Unfortunately, this conspiracy was eventually discovered by Boyer, who order all those involved to be executed. Narciso, however, was imprisoned. This action not only caused Olaya to