[PDF] Letters From The Prisons And Prison Ships Of The Revolution eBook

Author : Henry Reed Stiles
Publisher : Palala Press
Page : 318 pages
File Size : 31,43 MB
Release : 2016-05-24
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ISBN : 9781359211071

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Author : Henry R. Stiles
Publisher : Forgotten Books
Page : 308 pages
File Size : 29,41 MB
Release : 2017-12-03
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9780265618172

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Excerpt from Letters From the Prisons and Prison-Ships of the Revolution: With Notes Onathan gillet, the writer of the following letter, was born in Weft Hartford, Conn., February 4, 1738, and was by occupation a farmer. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.

Author : Edwin G. Burrows
Publisher : Basic Books
Page : 386 pages
File Size : 32,84 MB
Release : 2008-11-11
Category : History
ISBN : 0786727047

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Between 1775 and 1783, some 200,000 Americans took up arms against the British Crown. Just over 6,800 of those men died in battle. About 25,000 became prisoners of war, most of them confined in New York City under conditions so atrocious that they perished by the thousands. Evidence suggests that at least 17,500 Americans may have died in these prisons -- more than twice the number to die on the battlefield. It was in New York, not Boston or Philadelphia, where most Americans gave their lives for the cause of independence. New York City became the jailhouse of the American Revolution because it was the principal base of the Crown's military operations. Beginning with the bumper crop of American captives taken during the 1776 invasion of New York, captured Americans were stuffed into a hastily assembled collection of public buildings, sugar houses, and prison ships. The prisoners were shockingly overcrowded and chronically underfed -- those who escaped alive told of comrades so hungry they ate their own clothes and shoes. Despite the extraordinary number of lives lost, Forgotten Patriots is the first-ever account of what took place in these hell-holes. The result is a unique perspective on the Revolutionary War as well as a sobering commentary on how Americans have remembered our struggle for independence -- and how much we have forgotten.

Author : Danske Dandridge
Publisher : IndyPublish.com
Page : 762 pages
File Size : 25,12 MB
Release : 1911
Category : History
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Author : Larry G. Bowman
Publisher :
Page : 166 pages
File Size : 26,49 MB
Release : 1976
Category : United States
ISBN :

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"The purpose of this book is to attempt to describe and evaluate the conditions which American military and civilian personnel endured as captives of the British military forces during the American Revolution"--Pref.