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but so strong had the spirit of toleration 

 become that it was revoked. The French 

 Revolution for the first time gave the Protes- 

 tants in France equal civil and political rights 

 with Roman Catholics, but the recognized 

 Protestant Church was not permitted to hold 

 synods or general assemblies until 1872. French 

 Protestants now number approximately 700,000, 

 and have about 1,400 places of worship. 



Consult Thompson's The Wars of Religion in 

 France; Willert's Henry of Navarre and The 

 Huguenots in France. 



Related Subjects. The following articles in 

 these volumes contain information which bears 

 upon the subject of the Huguenots : 

 Catharine de' Medici Guise 

 Charles (France) Henry (France) 



Coligny, Gaspard de Nantes, Edict of 



France, subtitle Saint Bartholomew's 



History Day, Massacre of 



HULL, the county town of Ottawa County, 

 Quebec, situated in the southwestern part of 

 the province, at the confluence of the Gatineau 

 and Ottawa rivers. Ottawa, the capital of the 

 Dominion, is on the south bank of the Ottawa 

 River, directly opposite Hull, with which it is 

 connected by two suspension bridges. Trans- 

 portation is provided by the Canadian Pacific 

 Railway, and an electric tram extends to 

 Ottawa and Aylmer. Both the Gatineau and 

 the Ottawa rivers are important logging 

 streams, and Chaudiere Falls, on the Ottawa 

 River, provide power for the city's manufac- 

 tures, which are growing rapidly. The products 

 include watches, sulphur, sulphite, pails, pulp, 

 paper, Portland cement and packed meats. 

 The city has a park, a $30,000 post office and 

 a Roman Catholic College, the equipment of 

 which cost $600,000. The first settlement was 

 made in 1804, but the city was not incorpo- 

 rated until 1893. It was almost completely 

 destroyed by fire on April 26, 1900; but has 

 been rebuilt, and now has adequate protection 

 against fire. The population in 1911 was 

 18,222; in 1916 it was estimated at 20,000, the 

 majority being French-Canadians. H.B. 



HULL, or KINGSTON-UPON-HULL, for 

 over 600 years one of England's chief cities, 

 now ranks third among its river ports. The 

 average annual value of its imports exceeds 

 20,000,000 ($100,000,000) and its exports 16^- 

 000,000 ($80,000,000). It is an important 

 municipal and parliamentary borough and 

 county of itself, situated in the East Riding 

 of Yorkshire, on the west, side of the Hull, 

 where that river discharges into the estuary 

 of the Humber. Shipbuilding yards are in 



operation, where ironclads have been con- 

 structed for the English as well as for foreign 

 governments. The staple industry is seed- 

 crushing for oil and cake-making. Here are 

 also to be found extensive foundries, tanneries, 

 breweries, flax and cotton mills and chemical 

 works; but the city's importance arises chiefly 

 from its shipping, its docks ranking among the 

 largest in the world. 



Among its principal buildings are Trinity 

 Church, built in 1412; a town hall, a market 

 hall and the corn exchange. It was important 

 long before it received its charter from Edward 

 I in 1299. Population in 1911, 278,028. 



HULL, WILLIAM (1753-1825), an American 

 soldier whose surrender of Detroit to the Brit- 

 ish during the War of 1812 overshadowed a 

 military career that was otherwise a credit to 

 him. He was born in Derby, Conn., and edu- 

 cated at Yale College. In 1775, after complet- 

 ing law studies at Litchfield, Conn., and passing 

 his bar examinations, he joined the colonial 

 army as a captain, taking part in the battles 

 of Trenton, Princeton, Saratoga, Monmouth 

 and Stony Point, and rising to the rank of 

 lieutenant-colonel. After the war he removed, 

 to Massachusetts and was elected to the state 

 senate; in 1805 he became governor of the 

 territory of Michigan. 



Hull was promoted to the rank of brigadier- 

 general early in 1812, and was given command 

 of the army in the Northwest. Soon after the 

 outbreak of the War of 1812 he invaded Can- 

 ada, but accomplished nothing, and in August, 

 having recrossed the border, he surrendered 

 Detroit to General Brock, after a weak resist- 

 ance. It has been charged that he showed such 

 great haste to surrender that instead of wait- 

 ing for a white flag of truce to be found he 

 seized a tablecloth and waved it over the walls 

 of the fort. His act caused general indigna- 

 tion, and a court-martial, held in March, 1814, 

 ordered him to be shot, a sentence later remit- 

 ted by President Madison. Hull's defenders 

 say that the blame for the conduct of the 

 campaign in the Northwest should have been 

 shared by the administration at Washington. 



HULL HOUSE. Down in the heart of the 

 foreign center of Chicago is a social settlement 

 known as Hull House, which was established 

 by Miss Jane Addams and Miss Ellen Starr 

 in 1889 for the purpose of broadening the 

 interests of and providing wholesome recreation 

 and practical instruction for the poor people 

 living in its vicinity. It was one of the first 

 of its kind in America, and has become the 



