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CAPE HAYTIEN CAP HAITIEN or . HAYTIEN, a seaport of See also:Haiti, See also:West Indies . Pop. about 15,000 . It is situated on the See also:north See also:coast, 90 m . N. of See also:Port au See also:Prince, in 1q° 46' N. and 720 14' W . Its See also:original See also:Indian name was See also:Guarico, and it has been known, at various times, as Cabo Santo, Cap See also:Francais and Cape See also:Henri, while throughout Haiti it is always called Le Cap . It is the most picturesque See also:town in the See also:republic, and the second in importance . On three sides it is hemmed in by lofty mountains, while on the See also:fourth it overlooks a safe and commodious See also:harbour . Under the See also:French See also:rule it was the See also:capital of the See also:colony, and its splendour, See also:wealth and luxury earned for it the See also:title of the " See also:Paris of Haiti." It was then the see of an See also:archbishop and possessed a large and flourishing university . The last remains of its former See also:glory were destroyed by the See also:earthquake of 1842 and the See also:British See also: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 and does a large export See also:trade . It was founded by the Spaniards about the See also:middle of the 17th See also: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 at the hands of See also:Toussaint L'Ouverture
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