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Forgotten Patriots: The Untold Story of American Prisoners During the Revolutionary War
Edwin G. Burrows
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| #713983 in Books | 2010-11-09 | 2010-11-09 | Original language:English | PDF # 1 | 9.00 x1.00 x5.75l,.95 | File type: PDF | 384 pages||2 of 2 people found the following review helpful.| A Harrowing Account|By Rocco Dormarunno|Edwin G. Burrows "Forgotten Patriots" is an informative, sobering and, at many times, harrowing account of American revolutionaries (mostly military and sometimes non-military) who suffered unspeakable cruelties and miseries aboard the prison ships and make-shift hell-hole gaols in British occupied New York. Professor Burrows is to be cre||"Washington Post Book World"|"[A] pathbreaking examination of the treatment of American prisoners during the Revolutionary War... Burrows's book is a landmark whose significance far outweighs recent, popular biographies of the Founding Fathers. His sparkling p
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 m...
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