restored, with Fabre Nicholas Geffrard, a mulatto general, at its head. Geffrard held the Presidency for eight years, when he followed his predecessor into exile in Jamaica, and was succeeded by General Salnave, a negro, who tried to re-establish the Empire and was shot, 1869. Since that time revolutions have been frequent and nothing has been constant except the disorder and decline of the country. Meantime, the Dominican Republic has suffered scarcely less, from its own disorders and the attacks of its Haytian neighbors. In 1861 it was surrendered by a provisional government to Spain, but recovered independence three years later. Soon afterwards one of its parties sought annexation to the United States, and in 1869 the President of the latter republic, General Grant, concluded a treaty with the Dominican government for the cession of the peninsula of Samana, and for the placing of San Domingo under American protection. But the Senate of the United States refused to ratify the treaty. _E. J. Payne, History of European Colonies, chapter 15._ ALSO IN: _Sir S. St. John, Hayti, or the Black Republic, chapter 3._ ----------HAYTI: End-------- HEAD-CENTER, Fenian. See IRELAND: A. D. 1858-1867. HEARTS OF OAK BOYS. HEARTS OF STEEL BOYS. See IRELAND: A. D.1760-1798. HEAVENFIELD. Battle of the (635). Defeat of the Welsh, with the death of Cadwallon, the "last great hero of the British race," by the English of Bernicia, A.D. 635. "The victory of the Heaven-field indeed is memorable as the close of the last rally which the Britons ever made against their conquerors." _J. R. Green, The Making of England, page 275._ ALSO IN: _Bede, Ecclesiastical History, book 3, chapters 1-2._ HÉBERT AND THE HÉBERTISTS IN THE FRENCH REVOLUTION. See FRANCE: A. D. 1790; 1793 (MARCH-JUNE), (SEPTEMBER-DECEMBER), to 1793-1794 (NOVEMBER-JUNE). HEBREW, The Name. See JEWS: THEIR NATIONAL NAMES. ----------HEBRIDES: Start-------- HEBRIDES OR WESTERN ISLANDS, The. "The Hebrides or Western Islands comprise all the numerous islands and islets which extend along nearly all the west coast of Scotland; and they anciently comprised also the peninsula of Cantyre, the islands of the Clyde, the isle of Rachlin, and even for some time the isle of Man." _Historical Tales of the Wars of Scotland, volume 3, page 60._ HEBRIDES: 9th-13th Centuries. The dominion of the Northmen. See NORMANS. NORTHMEN: 8TH-9TH CENTURIES, and 10TH-13TH CENTURIES; also, SODOR AND MAN. HEBRIDES: A. D. 1266. Cession to Scotland. See SCOTLAND; A. D. 1266. HEBRIDES: A. D. 1346-1504. The Lords of the Isles.