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Haiti, officially the Republic of Haiti, is a country on the island of Hispaniola in the Caribbean Sea, east of Cuba and Jamaica, and south of The Bahamas. It occupies the western three-eighths of the island, which it shares with the Dominican Republic. Haiti is the third largest country in the Caribbean, and with an estimated population of 11.4 million, is the most populous Caribbean country.0 The capital and largest city is Port-au-Prince.

As of 2024, Haiti has faced severe economic and political crises, gang activity, and the collapse of its government. With no elected officials remaining, Haiti has been described as a failed state. (Full article...)

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HMS Southampton in 1789

The action of 3 February 1812 was a single-ship action fought off the western coast of Haiti between the British Royal Navy and a Haitian warship during the Napoleonic Wars. It was fought against the background of the collapse of the First Empire of Haiti in 1806 after the Haitian Revolution; after Haiti became independent from French colonial rule in 1804, it was first ruled by Jean-Jacques Dessalines, who was assassinated in 1806 and replaced by two of his advisors, Henri Christophe and Alexandre Pétion. They divided the country between them and in the confused political situation that followed a number of minor fiefdoms appeared, including one ruled by warlord Jérôme-Maximilien Borgella in the department of Sud. The small Haitian Navy defected from Christophe to Borgella, who crewed his new ships with sailors from various countries.

In 1812, the British frigate HMS Southampton was stationed off Haiti under Captain Sir James Lucas Yeo, who was tasked with observing Haiti's political situation but was ordered not to interfere in the intermittent conflict between Christophe and Pétion. Yeo's orders did not mention Borgella's ships and Yeo reasoned that the Haitian Navy's flagship, the 44-gun frigate Heureuse Réunion under the command of a French privateer named Gaspard, presented a serious threat to international trade in the region. (Full article...)

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...that Hurricane Gordon was a Category 1 hurricane that killed 1,122 people in Haiti in 1994 and that the hurricane name was not retired by the World Meteorological Organization?
...that the African-American dancer Lavinia Williams gave up ballet stardom in the United States to spend decades developing national schools of Caribbean traditional dance in Haiti, Guyana, and the Bahamas?
...that the sailors of the Santa María shipwrecked in Haiti were infected by the first reported cases of tungiasis, a disease caused by burrowing fleas?

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A fishing boat being built in Cap-Haïtien.

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Image 1Swearing-in ceremony of Haitian Diaspora GwètòDe (Clergy in Vodou) (from Culture of Haiti)
Image 2The French army led by Le Clerc lands in Cap Français (1802) (from History of Haiti)
Image 3Fishing village in Haiti, 1996 (from History of Haiti)
Image 4Jean-Jacques Dessalines (from History of Haiti)
Image 5Dumarsais Estimé (from History of Haiti)
Image 6The National Palace burned down during the revolt against Salnave in 1868 (from History of Haiti)
Image 7United States Marines and a Haitian guide patrolling the jungle in 1915 during the Battle of Fort Dipitie (from History of Haiti)
Image 8Kanaval in Jacmel Haiti 2014 03 (from Culture of Haiti)
Image 92004 Haiti flood (from Environment of Haiti)
Image 10"Burning of the Plaine du Cap – Massacre of whites by the blacks". On 22 August 1791, slaves set fire to plantations, torched cities, and massacred the white population. (from History of Haiti)
Image 11Large portions of the National Palace collapsed (from History of Haiti)
Image 12Bishop's House in Cap-Haitien, 1907 (from History of Haiti)
Image 13Market street in Port-au-Prince, 1996 (from History of Haiti)
Image 14President Jean-Bertrand Aristide returns triumphantly to the National Palace at Port-au-Prince, Haiti in 1994 (from History of Haiti)
Image 15Engraving of Cap-Français in 1728 (from History of Haiti)
Image 16Michel Martelly (from History of Haiti)
Image 17Staff of the German legation and the Hamburg-Amerika Line agency at Port-au-Prince, Haiti in 1900. The agency was involved in the staffing and management of the legation. German nationals were comparatively numerous in Haiti and heavily involved in the Haitian economy until World War I. (from History of Haiti)
Image 18The coronation of Faustin I of Haiti in 1849 (from History of Haiti)
Image 19Charles Rivière-Hérard (from History of Haiti)
Image 20U.S. Coast Guard intercepting Haitian refugees, 1998 (from History of Haiti)
Image 21Provisional President Boniface Alexandre (2004–2006) led the intervention of the UN peacekeeping force in Haiti in 2004 (from History of Haiti)
Image 22"The Mode of exterminating the Black Army, as practiced by the French", by Marcus Rainsford, 1805 (from History of Haiti)
Image 23U.S. troops seizing Port-au-Prince airfield, September 1994 (from History of Haiti)
Image 24Haitian Folk Singer Manno Charlemagne (from Culture of Haiti)
Image 25Lysius Salomon (from History of Haiti)
Image 26Jean-Claude and Michèle Duvalier en route to the airport to flee the country, 7 February 1986 (from History of Haiti)
Image 27Battle for Santo Domingo, by January Suchodolski (1845) (from History of Haiti)
Image 28The Kingdom of Haiti in the North and the Republic of Haiti in the South (from History of Haiti)
Image 29Élie Lescot (from History of Haiti)
Image 30François Duvalier in 1968 (from History of Haiti)
Image 31Jovenel Moïse (from History of Haiti)
Image 32Marine's base at Cap-Haïtien (from History of Haiti)
Image 33Christopher Columbus landing on the island of Hispaniola in 1492. (from History of Haiti)
Image 34American Marines in 1915 defending the entrance gate in Cap-Haïten (from History of Haiti)
Image 35U.S. Marines patrol the streets of Port-au-Prince on 9 March 2004 (from History of Haiti)
Image 36Port-au-Prince and surroundings at the start of the 19th century (from History of Haiti)
Image 37Jean-Pierre Boyer (from History of Haiti)
Image 38Paul Magloire (from History of Haiti)
Image 39Flamingo tongue on a purple sea fan from Arcadin Islands, Haiti. This sea snail is found living on various species of soft corals and sea fans. (from Environment of Haiti)
Image 40René Préval (from History of Haiti)
Image 41"Revenge taken by the Black Army for the Cruelties practiced on them by the French", by Marcus Rainsford, 1805 (from History of Haiti)
Image 42Opening of the mausoleum of Pétion and Dessalines in 1926 (from History of Haiti)
Image 43A sugar mill in Haiti (L'Homme et la Terre by Élisée Reclus, 1830–1905) (from History of Haiti)
Image 44As the unofficial leader of the revolution, Toussaint L'Ouverture is considered the father of Haiti. (from History of Haiti)
Image 45Michel Domingue (from History of Haiti)
Image 46Sténio Vincent (from History of Haiti)
Image 47Bread market in St. Michel, 1928–1929 (from History of Haiti)
Image 48Leclerc's veterans storm Ravine-a-Couleuvre (Snake Gully) in 1802. (from History of Haiti)
Image 49Citadelle Laferrière, built by Henri Christophe, is the largest fortress in the Americas. (from History of Haiti)
Image 50Fabre Geffrard (from History of Haiti)
Image 51The ruins of the Sans-Souci Palace, severely damaged in the 1842 earthquake and never rebuilt (from History of Haiti)
Image 52The battle of Santo Domingo (1806) painted by Nicholas Pocock in 1808 (from History of Haiti)

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