HAVRE DE GRACE, hiv'er de gas, Md., city in Harford County,on the Susquehanna River, near its entrance into Chesapeake Bay, and on the Philadelehia, Baltimore and Wash ington and the Baltimore and Ohio railroads, about 36 miles east-northeast of Baltimore. It is the south terminus of the Tide-water Canal. A small settlement was made here in about 1670. The chief manufactures are flour, sash, doors and blinds, lumber, boats and launches and canned fruits. The fisheries, especially shad and herring, are important. The trade is principally in the manufactured articles, coal and fish. A government fish hatchery is located on Battery Island. It contains a hospital and a public library. A popular race course is situ ated here. Pop. 4,212.
HAW, Battle of the, in the Revolution, 21 Feb. 1781. Henry Lee had been commis sicced by Greene to prevent Tory reinforce ments coming to Cornwallis, who had taken position at Hillsboro, and in the course of the movement attempted to surprise Tarleton. Tarleton had moved; but hearing that about 400 Tories under Colonel Pyle were on their way to join him, Lee determined to pass off his own as Tarleton's and capture them all. Forcing two captured British officers to
keep up the deception, he moved forward, with Pickens' and Oldham's companies following, and met two young men who had been sent by Pyle to find Tarleton's camp; he was presented to them as Tarleton, and directed them to have Pyle's men drawn up beside the road while his ((weary veterans') passed — his object being to capture and disarm them all. The plan suc ceeded perfectly till, just as he had taken Pyles hand, part of the Tories discovered Pickens' militia and saw the trap, and at once fired on the American rear; the latter poured in a volley that killed 90 of the enemy at the first fire, and in the mêlée, despite appeals for quarter, a great number of the rest were killed and the majority wounded. Pyle escaped badly hurt, and the rest of the body dispersed un pursued.