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The ship was one of the first vessels of the Dominican Navy, requisitioned from a local owner and renamed Separación Dominicana during the Dominican War of Independence after the February 1844 Dominican declaration of independence from Haiti. Haiti responded to the declaration with a blockade of all Dominican ports in early March 1844. In the Battle of Tortuguero on 15 April 1844, Juan Bautista Cambiaso commanded the five-gun flagship Separación Dominicana and two smaller schooners, decisively defeating a Haitian brigantine and two schooners. As a result of the battle's outcome, Haitian president Charles Rivière-Hérard was ousted from power and Haitan military and naval operations against the Dominican Republic were temporarily suspended.