Forgotten Patriots: The Untold Story of American Prisoners During the Revolutionary War by Edwin G. Burrows

Forgotten Patriots: The Untold Story of American Prisoners During the Revolutionary War

Edwin G. Burrows

364 pages • first pub 2008 (editions)

nonfiction history informative inspiring slow-paced
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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...

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