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Great account of the Dartmoor Prisoner Massacre...
Great account of the Dartmoor Prisoner Massacre...
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July 26, 1815
ESSEX REGISTER, Salem, Massachusetts, July 26, 1815 the front page is almost entirely taken up with a very detailed accouny of the infamous Dartmoor Prisoner Massacre, perhaps the most detailed account of this event we have seen in a newspaper.
From the spring of 1813 until March 1815, about 6,500 American sailors from the War of 1812 were imprisoned at Dartmoor, in England, in poor conditions. These were either naval prisoners or impressed American seamen discharged from British vessels. At the end of the war, prisoners remained behind Dartmoor's walls for months after peace had been ratified. The prisoners' fury at their continued incarceration led to an uprising on April 6, 1815, and then to a massacre: nine Americans were shot dead, the last men to be killed in a war between the two countries.
Page 3 has a related article: "The Dartmoor Documents".
Four pages, never bound nor trimmed, nice condition.
Category: Pre-Civil War
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