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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. (Full article...)

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An illustration of the engagement between Experiment and several Haitian barges.
William Bainbridge Hoff, 1875

The action of 1 January 1800 was a naval battle of the Quasi-War that took place off the coast of present-day Haiti, near the island of Gonâve in the Bight of Léogâne. The battle was fought between an American convoy of four merchant vessels escorted by the United States naval schooner USS Experiment, and a squadron of fourteen armed barges manned by Haitian sailors.

A French-aligned Haitian general, André Rigaud, had instructed his forces to attack all foreign shipping within their range of operations. Accordingly, once Experiment and her convoy of merchant ships neared Gonâve, the barges attacked them, capturing two of the American merchant ships before withdrawing. Experiment managed to save the other two ships in her convoy, and escorted them to a friendly port. On the American side, only the captain of the schooner Mary was killed. Though the Haitians took heavy losses during this engagement, they remained strong enough to continue wreaking havoc among American shipping in the region. Only after Rigaud was forced out of power by the forces of Toussaint L'Ouverture, leader of the Haitian Revolution, did Haitian attacks on foreign merchantmen cease. (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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Image 1The battle of Santo Domingo (1806) painted by Nicholas Pocock in 1808 (from History of Haiti)
Image 2Jean-Jacques Dessalines (from History of Haiti)
Image 3Michel Domingue (from History of Haiti)
Image 4Provisional President Boniface Alexandre (2004–2006) led the intervention of the UN peacekeeping force in Haiti in 2004 (from History of Haiti)
Image 5Swearing-in ceremony of Haitian Diaspora GwètòDe (Clergy in Vodou) (from Culture of Haiti)
Image 6Leclerc's veterans storm Ravine-a-Couleuvre (Snake Gully) in 1802. (from History of Haiti)
Image 7Flamingo 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 8U.S. Marines patrol the streets of Port-au-Prince on 9 March 2004 (from History of Haiti)
Image 9As the unofficial leader of the revolution, Toussaint L'Ouverture is considered the father of Haiti. (from History of Haiti)
Image 10The coronation of Faustin I of Haiti in 1849 (from History of Haiti)
Image 11Marine's base at Cap-Haïtien (from History of Haiti)
Image 12Jovenel Moïse (from History of Haiti)
Image 13U.S. troops seizing Port-au-Prince airfield, September 1994 (from History of Haiti)
Image 14American Marines in 1915 defending the entrance gate in Cap-Haïten (from History of Haiti)
Image 152004 Haiti flood (from Environment of Haiti)
Image 16"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 17Fabre Geffrard (from History of Haiti)
Image 18Christopher Columbus landing on the island of Hispaniola in 1492. (from History of Haiti)
Image 19"The Mode of exterminating the Black Army, as practiced by the French", by Marcus Rainsford, 1805 (from History of Haiti)
Image 20François Duvalier in 1968 (from History of Haiti)
Image 21Bread market in St. Michel, 1928–1929 (from History of Haiti)
Image 22The National Palace burned down during the revolt against Salnave in 1868 (from History of Haiti)
Image 23René Préval (from History of Haiti)
Image 24Opening of the mausoleum of Pétion and Dessalines in 1926 (from History of Haiti)
Image 25Battle for Santo Domingo, by January Suchodolski (1845) (from History of Haiti)
Image 26President Jean-Bertrand Aristide returns triumphantly to the National Palace at Port-au-Prince, Haiti in 1994 (from History of Haiti)
Image 27Sténio Vincent (from History of Haiti)
Image 28Lysius Salomon (from History of Haiti)
Image 29U.S. Coast Guard intercepting Haitian refugees, 1998 (from History of Haiti)
Image 30Charles Rivière-Hérard (from History of Haiti)
Image 31Paul Magloire (from History of Haiti)
Image 32Dumarsais Estimé (from History of Haiti)
Image 33The Kingdom of Haiti in the North and the Republic of Haiti in the South (from History of Haiti)
Image 34Haitian Folk Singer Manno Charlemagne (from Culture of Haiti)
Image 35Michel Martelly (from History of Haiti)
Image 36Staff 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 37Market street in Port-au-Prince, 1996 (from History of Haiti)
Image 38Large portions of the National Palace collapsed (from History of Haiti)
Image 39"Revenge taken by the Black Army for the Cruelties practiced on them by the French", by Marcus Rainsford, 1805 (from History of Haiti)
Image 40The ruins of the Sans-Souci Palace, severely damaged in the 1842 earthquake and never rebuilt (from History of Haiti)
Image 41The French army led by Le Clerc lands in Cap Français (1802) (from History of Haiti)
Image 42Élie Lescot (from History of Haiti)
Image 43Jean-Claude and Michèle Duvalier en route to the airport to flee the country, 7 February 1986 (from History of Haiti)
Image 44Bishop's House in Cap-Haitien, 1907 (from History of Haiti)
Image 45Citadelle Laferrière, built by Henri Christophe, is the largest fortress in the Americas. (from History of Haiti)
Image 46Engraving of Cap-Français in 1728 (from History of Haiti)
Image 47Port-au-Prince and surroundings at the start of the 19th century (from History of Haiti)
Image 48A sugar mill in Haiti (L'Homme et la Terre by Élisée Reclus, 1830–1905) (from History of Haiti)
Image 49Fishing village in Haiti, 1996 (from History of Haiti)
Image 50Jean-Pierre Boyer (from History of Haiti)
Image 51Kanaval in Jacmel Haiti 2014 03 (from Culture of Haiti)
Image 52United States Marines and a Haitian guide patrolling the jungle in 1915 during the Battle of Fort Dipitie (from History of Haiti)

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