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A journal of a young man of Massachusetts, late a surgeon on board an American privateer, who was captured at sea by the British, in May, eighteen hundred and thirteen, and was confined first, at Melville Island, Halifax, then at Chatham, in England - and last, at Dartmoor Prison. Interspersed with observations, anecdotes and remarks, tending to illustrate the moral and political characters of three nations. To which is added, a correct engraving of Dartmoor Prison, representing the massacre of American prisoners / Written by himself.
Waterhouse, Benjamin, 1754-1846.Date: 1816
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Dartmoor Prison seen from above: troops firing on American prisoners of war during an insurrection in April 1815. Coloured lithograph after Clover Broughton.
Broughton, Clover.Date: 1800-1899Reference: 37716i