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CAP HAITIEN, CAPE HAYTIEN

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Originally appearing in Volume V05, Page 256 of the 1911 Encyclopedia Britannica.

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CAP HAITIEN, CAPE HAYTIEN or. HAYTIEN, a seaport of See also:

HAITI [HAITI, HAYTI, SAN DOMINGO, Or HISPANIOLA]

Haiti, See also:

West Indies. Pop. about 15,000. It is situated on the See also:

north See also:

COAST (from Lat. costa, a rib, side)

coast, 90 m. N. of See also:

PORT

Port au See also:

Prince, in 1q° 46' N. and 720 14' W. Its See also:

ORIGINAL

original See also:

INDIAN

Indian name was See also:

GUARICO

Guarico, and it has been known, at various times, as Cabo Santo, Cap See also:

FRANCAIS, ANTOINE, COUNT (1756-1836)

Francais and Cape See also:

HENRI

Henri, while throughout Haiti it is always called Le Cap. It is the most picturesque See also:

TOWN

town in the See also:

REPUBLIC (Lat. respublica, a commonweal or common-wealth)

republic, and the second in importance. On three sides it is hemmed in by lofty mountains, while on the See also:

FOURTH

fourth it overlooks a safe and commodious See also:

HARBOUR (from M.E. hereberge, here, an army; cf. Ger. Heer and -beorg, protection or shelter. Other early forms in English were herberwe and haiborow, as seen in various place names, such as Market Harborough.. The French auberge, an inn, derived through

harbour. Under the See also:

French See also:

RULE

rule it was the See also:

capital of the See also:

COLONY (Lat. colonia, from colonus, a cultivator)

colony, and its splendour, See also:

WEALTH

wealth and luxury earned for it the See also:

TITLE (0. Fr. title, mod. titre, from Lat. titulus)

title of the " See also:

Paris of Haiti." It was then the see of an See also:

ARCHBISHOP (Lat. archiepiscopus, from Gr. apxceatorcoros)

archbishop and possessed a large and flourishing university. The last remains of its former See also:

GLORY (through the O. Fr. glorie, modern gloire, from Lat. gloria, cognate with Gr. KXebs, abets)

glory were destroyed by the See also:

EARTHQUAKE

earthquake of 1842 and the See also:

BRITISH

British See also:

BOMBARDMENT

bombardment of 1865. Although now but a collection of squalid wooden huts, with here and there a well-built warehouse, it is the centre of a thriving See also:

DISTRICT

district and does a large export See also:

trade. It was founded by the Spaniards about the See also:

MIDDLE

middle of the 17th See also:

CENTURY (from Lat. centuria, a division of a hundred men)

century, and in 1687 received a large French colony.

In 1695 it was taken and burned by the British, and in 1791 it suffered the same See also:

FATE

fate at the hands of See also:

TOUSSAINT

Toussaint L'Ouverture. It then became the capital of See also:

King Henri Christophe's dominions, but since his fall has suffered severely in numerous revolutions.

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