favour as a seaside resort, having a wide sandy beach and good golf links. The island was in the possession of successive religious bodies from the Conquest (when it was given to the Benedictines of Jumièges, near Rouen), until the Dissolution. The church of South Hayling is a fine Early English building.
HAVEL, a river of Prussia, Germany, having its origin in
Lake Dambeck (223 ft.) on the Mecklenburg plateau, a few
miles north-west of Neu-Strelitz, and after threading several
lakes flowing south as far as Spandau. Thence it curves south-west,
past Potsdam and Brandenburg, traversing another chain
of lakes, and finally continues north-west until it joins the Elbe
from the right some miles above Wittenberge after a total
course of 221 m. and a total fall of only 158 ft. Its banks are
mostly marshy or sandy, and the stream is navigable from the
Mecklenburg lakes downwards. Several canals connect it
with these lakes, as well as with other rivers—e.g. the Finow
canal with the Oder, the Ruppin canal with the Rhin, the Berlin-Spandau
navigable canal (512 m.) with the Spree, and the Plaue-Ihle
canal with the Elbe. The Sakrow-Paretz canal, 11 m. long,
cuts off the deep bend at Potsdam. The most notable of the
tributaries is the Spree (227 m. long), which bisects Berlin and
joins the Havel at Spandau. Area of river basin, 10,159 sq. m.
HAVELBERG, a town of Germany, in the Prussian province
of Brandenburg, on the Havel and the railway Glöwen-Havelberg.
Pop. (1905), 5988. The town is built partly on an island
in the Havel, and partly on hills on the right bank of the river,
on one of which stands the fine Romanesque cathedral dating
from the 12th century. The two parts, which are connected
by a bridge, were incorporated as one town in 1875. The
inhabitants are chiefly engaged in tobacco manufacturing,
sugar-refining and boat-building, and in the timber trade.
Otto I. founded a bishopric at Havelberg in 946; the bishop, however, who was a prince of the Empire, generally resided at Plattenburg, or Wittstock, a few miles to the north. In 1548 the bishopric was seized by the elector of Brandenburg, who finally took possession of it fifty years later, and the cathedral passed to the Protestant Church, retaining its endowments till the edict of 1810, by which all former ecclesiastical possessions were assumed by the crown. The final secularization was delayed till 1819. Havelberg was formerly a strong fortress, but in the Thirty Years’ War it was taken from the Danish by the imperial troops in 1627. Recaptured by the Swedes in 1631, and again in 1635 and 1636, it was in 1637 retaken by the Saxons. It suffered severely from a conflagration in 1870.
HAVELOCK, SIR HENRY (1795–1857), British soldier, one of
the heroes of the Indian Mutiny, the second of four brothers (all
of whom entered the army), was born at Ford Hall, Bishop-Wearmouth,
Sunderland, on the 5th of April 1795. His parents
were William Havelock, a wealthy shipbuilder in Sunderland,
and Jane, daughter of John Carter, solicitor at Stockton-on-Tees.
When about five years old Henry accompanied his elder brother
William to Mr Bradley’s school at Swanscombe, whence at the
age of ten he removed for seven years to Charterhouse school.
In accordance with the desire of his mother, who had died in
1811, he entered the Middle Temple in 1813, studying under
Chitty the eminent special pleader. His legal studies having been
abridged by a misunderstanding with his father, he in 1815
accepted a second lieutenancy in the Rifle Brigade (95th),
procured for him by the interest of his brother William. During
the following eight years of service in Britain he read extensively
and acquired a good acquaintance with the theory of war. In
1823, having exchanged into the 21st and thence into the 13th
Light Infantry, he followed his brothers William and Charles
to India, first qualifying himself in Hindustani under Dr Gilchrist,
a celebrated Orientalist.
At the close of twenty-three years’ service he was still a lieutenant, and it was not until 1838 that, after three years’ adjutancy of his regiment, he became captain. Before this, however, he had held several staff appointments, notably that of deputy assistant-adjutant-general of the forces in Burma till the peace of Yandabu, of which he, with Lumsden and Knox, procured the ratifications at Ava from the “Golden Foot,” who bestowed on him the “gold leaf” insignia of Burmese nobility. His first command had been at a stockade capture in the war, and he was present also at the battles of Napadee, Patanago and Pagan. He had also held during his lieutenancy various interpreterships and the adjutancy of the king’s troops at Chinsura. In 1828 he published at Serampore Campaigns in Ava, and in 1829 he married Hannah Shepherd, daughter of Dr Marshman, the eminent missionary. About the same time he became a Baptist, being baptized by Mr John Mack at Serampore. During the first Afghan war he was present as aide-de-camp to Sir Willoughby Cotton at the capture of Ghazni, on the 23rd of July 1839, and at the occupation of Kabul. After a short absence in Bengal to secure the publication of his Memoirs of the Afghan Campaign, he returned to Kabul in charge of recruits, and became interpreter to General Elphinstone. In 1840, being attached to Sir Robert Sale’s force, he took part in the Khurd-Kabul fight, in the celebrated passage of the defiles of the Ghilzais (1841) and in the fighting from Tezeen to Jalalabad. Here, after many months’ siege, his column in a sortie en masse defeated Akbar Khan on the 7th of April 1842. He was now made deputy adjutant-general of the infantry division in Kabul, and in September he assisted at Jagdalak, at Tezeen, and at the release of the British prisoners at Kabul, besides taking a prominent part at Istaliff. Having obtained a regimental majority he next went through the Mahratta campaign as Persian interpreter to Sir Hugh (Viscount) Gough, and distinguished himself at Maharajpore in 1843, and also in the Sikh campaign at Moodkee, Ferozeshah and Sobraon in 1845. For these services he was made deputy adjutant-general at Bombay. He exchanged from the 13th to the 39th, then as second major into the 53rd at the beginning of 1849, and soon afterwards left for England, where he spent two years. In 1854 he became quartermaster-general, then full colonel, and lastly adjutant-general of the troops in India.
In 1857 he was selected by Sir James Outram for the command of a division in the Persian campaign, during which he was present at the actions of Muhamra and Ahwaz. Peace with Persia set him free just as the Mutiny broke out; and he was chosen to command a column “to quell disturbances in Allahabad, to support Lawrence at Lucknow and Wheeler at Cawnpore, to disperse and utterly destroy all mutineers and insurgents.” At this time Lady Canning wrote of him in her diary: “General Havelock is not in fashion, but all the same we believe that he will do well. No doubt he is fussy and tiresome, but his little old stiff figure looks as active and fit for use as if he were made of steel.” But in spite of this lukewarm commendation Havelock proved himself the man for the occasion, and won the reputation of a great military leader. At Fatehpur, on the 12th of July, at Aong and Pandoobridge on the 15th, at Cawnpore on the 16th, at Unao on the 29th, at Busherutgunge on the 29th and again on the 5th of August, at Boorhya on the 12th of August, and at Bithur on the 16th, he defeated overwhelming forces. Twice he advanced for the relief of Lucknow, but twice prudence forbade a reckless exposure of troops wasted by battle and disease in the almost impracticable task. Reinforcements arriving at last under Outram, he was enabled by the generosity of his superior officer to crown his successes on the 25th of September 1857 by the capture of Lucknow. There he died on the 24th of November 1857, of dysentery, brought on by the anxieties and fatigues connected with his victorious march and with the subsequent blockade of the British troops. He lived long enough to receive the intelligence that he had been created K.C.B. for the first three battles of the campaign; but of the major-generalship which was shortly afterwards conferred he never knew. On the 26th of November, before tidings of his death had reached England, letters-patent were directed to create him a baronet and a pension of £1000 a year was voted at the assembling of parliament. The baronetcy was afterwards bestowed upon his eldest son; while to his widow, by royal order, was given the rank to which she would have been entitled had her husband survived and been created a baronet. To both widow and son pensions of £1000 were awarded by parliament.
