=Haiti= (Hayti), island, W. Indies. 19N. 71W. Discovered by Columbus, whose ship was wrecked off, 1492; Cortes lands on, 1504; Hawkins at, trading in negroes, 1562-3; attacked by Drake, 1585; western division guaranteed to France by Treaty of Ryswick, 1697; negro revolts, 1722, 1791; surrender of Spanish possession to France, 1795; revolt of negroes under Toussaint l'Ouverture, 1801; his surrender to French, 1802; negroes again in power under a king or president, 1803-25; France recognises independence of island, 1825; Dominican republic f., 1843; continued disturbances in for some time after. (See San Domingo.) =Hakluyt's Isle=, Baffin's Bay. 77N. 74W. Name given to by Bylot, 1616. =Halifax=, Nova Scotia. 44N. 63W. F. on old village of Chebucto, or Chedabucto, by English, and made capital of Acadia, 1749. =Hampton=, Virginia. 36N. 76W. British blockaders driven from, 1775, first encounter in Virginia of the W. of Ind.; entered and pillaged by the English, 1813; fired by order of the Confederate general, 1861 (Civil W.). =Hampton Roads=, Virginia. 36N. 76W. Naval encounter between the Confederate vessel 'Merrimac' and the 'Monitor,' the latter remaining victor, 1862; meeting of President Lincoln and the Confederates, Feb. 3, 1865 (Civil W.). =Hanging Rock=, Catawba R., S. Carolina. 34N. 45W. Encounter during W. of Ind., 1780. =Hanover=, near Gettysburg, Penn. 39N. 77W. Confederates repulsed, 1863 (Civil W.). =Hanover= (or Hanover Court House), Virginia. 37N. 77W. Confederates defeated, 1862 (Civil W.). =Hardin Co.=, Kentucky. 37N. 85W. Bp. Abraham Lincoln, sixteenth President U.S. (1809, ass. 1865). =Harlem Plains=, N.Y. 40N. 74W. Desperate encounter during W. of Ind. in which Washington took part, 1776. =Harmony=, near Pittsburg, Penn. F. by the German religious sect formed by the brothers Rapp, 1803; afterwards sold to Robert Owen, 1824. =Harper's Ferry=, Virginia. 39N. 77W. U.S. arsenal captured by the heroic John Brown, abolitionist, who the next day was made prisoner, 1859; arsenal, etc., blown up by the U.S. garrison early in the Civil W., and Confederates entered for a while into possession; captured by 'Stonewall' Jackson, 1862 (Civil W.). =Harrisonburg=, Virginia. 58N. 78W. Victory of Confederates under 'Stonewall' Jackson, 1862. =Hartford=, Conn. 41N. 72W. Settled by English emigrants from Massachusetts, 1635; convention for reform of the national constitution, 1814. Bp. Noah Webster, lexicographer (1758-1843); John Fiske, mis. writer (1842-1901). =Harvard University=, Cambridge (q.v.). F. 1636; first president, Henry Dunster, 1640-54. =Hatchee=, river, Mississippi. 35N. 88W. Defeat of Confederates near Corinth, 1862 (Civil W.). =Hatcher's Run=, near Petersburg, Virginia. 37N. 77W. Severe struggle, in which the Federals were repulsed, 1864 (Civil W.).