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Language: en
Pages: 368
Pages: 368
Type: BOOK - Published: 2017-08-15 - Publisher: Da Capo Press
The most horrific struggle of the American Revolution occurred just 100 yards off New York, where more men died aboard a rotting prison ship than were lost to c
Language: en
Pages: 257
Pages: 257
Type: BOOK - Published: 2020-06-02 - Publisher: Random House Trade Paperbacks
Was he New York City’s last pirate . . . or its first gangster? This is the true story of the bloodthirsty underworld legend who conquered Manhattan, dock by
Language: en
Pages: 180
Pages: 180
Type: BOOK - Published: 2009 - Publisher:
"Far fewer people have heard of Wallabout Bay on the Brooklyn shore of the East River or know the terrible story of American sailors who were imprisoned there o
Language: en
Pages: 386
Pages: 386
Type: BOOK - Published: 2008-11-11 - Publisher: Basic Books
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
Language: en
Pages: 128
Pages: 128
Type: BOOK - Published: 2010 - Publisher: Westholme Pub Llc
Recollections of Life on the Prison Ship Jersey publishes for the first time the complete text of Thomas Dring’s handwritten manuscript, a major primary-sourc
