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Author : Henry Reed Stiles
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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 76 pages
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Download or read book Letters from the Prisons and Prison-ships of the Revolution written by Henry Reed Stiles and published by . This book was released on 1865 with total page 76 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Stiles Henry R.
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ISBN 13 : 9780259661832
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Download or read book Letters from the Prisons and Prison-ships of the Revolution written by Stiles Henry R. and published by . This book was released on 1901 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Henry Reed Stiles
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Total Pages : 49 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (832 download)
Download or read book Letters from the Prisons and Prison-ships of the Revolution written by Henry Reed Stiles and published by . This book was released on 1865 with total page 49 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Henry R. Stiles
Publisher : Forgotten Books
ISBN 13 : 9780265618172
Total Pages : 308 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (181 download)
Download or read book Letters From the Prisons and Prison-Ships of the Revolution written by Henry R. Stiles and published by Forgotten Books. This book was released on 2017-12-03 with total page 308 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Excerpt from Letters From the Prisons and Prison-Ships of the Revolution: With Notes Onathan gillet, the writer of the following letter, was born in Weft Hartford, Conn., February 4, 1738, and was by occupation a farmer. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.
Author : Henry Reed Stiles
Publisher : Palala Press
ISBN 13 : 9781359211071
Total Pages : 318 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (11 download)
Download or read book Letters from the Prisons and Prison-Ships of the Revolution. written by Henry Reed Stiles and published by Palala Press. This book was released on 2016-05-24 with total page 318 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important, and is part of the knowledge base of civilization as we know it. This work was reproduced from the original artifact, and remains as true to the original work as possible. Therefore, you will see the original copyright references, library stamps (as most of these works have been housed in our most important libraries around the world), and other notations in the work.This work is in the public domain in the United States of America, and possibly other nations. Within the United States, you may freely copy and distribute this work, as no entity (individual or corporate) has a copyright on the body of the work.As a reproduction of a historical artifact, this work may contain missing or blurred pages, poor pictures, errant marks, etc. Scholars believe, and we concur, that this work is important enough to be preserved, reproduced, and made generally available to the public. We appreciate your support of the preservation process, and thank you for being an important part of keeping this knowledge alive and relevant.
Author : Danske Dandridge
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Total Pages : 762 pages
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Download or read book American Prisoners of the Revolution written by Danske Dandridge and published by . This book was released on 1911 with total page 762 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Liberty Street Sugar House was a tall, narrow building five stories in height, and with dismal underground dungeons. In this gloomy abode jail fever was ever present. In the hot weather of July, 1777, companies of twenty at a time would be sent out for half an hour's outing, in the court yard. Inside groups of six stood for ten minutes at a time at the windows for a breath of air.
Author : Edwin G. Burrows
Publisher : Basic Books
ISBN 13 : 0786727047
Total Pages : 360 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (867 download)
Download or read book Forgotten Patriots written by Edwin G. Burrows and published by Basic Books. This book was released on 2008-11-11 with total page 360 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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 most Americans gave their lives for the cause of independence. New York City became the jailhouse of the American Revolution because it was the principal base of the Crown's military operations. Beginning with the bumper crop of American captives taken during the 1776 invasion of New York, captured Americans were stuffed into a hastily assembled collection of public buildings, sugar houses, and prison ships. The prisoners were shockingly overcrowded and chronically underfed—those who escaped alive told of comrades so hungry they ate their own clothes and shoes. Despite the extraordinary number of lives lost, Forgotten Patriots is the first-ever account of what took place in these hell-holes. The result is a unique perspective on the Revolutionary War as well as a sobering commentary on how Americans have remembered our struggle for independence—and how much we have forgotten.
Author : Octavius Thorndike Howe
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Total Pages : 146 pages
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Download or read book Beverly Privateers in the American Revolution written by Octavius Thorndike Howe and published by . This book was released on 1922 with total page 146 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Colonial Society of Massachusetts
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Total Pages : 610 pages
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Download or read book Transactions written by Colonial Society of Massachusetts and published by . This book was released on 1923 with total page 610 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Colonial Society of Massachusetts
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Total Pages : 630 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (91 download)
Download or read book Publications of the Colonial Society of Massachusetts written by Colonial Society of Massachusetts and published by . This book was released on 1923 with total page 630 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Primarily consists of: Transactions, v. 1, 3, 5-8, 10-14, 17-21, 24-28, 32, 34-35, 38, 42-43; and: Collections, v. 2, 4, 9, 15-16, 22-23, 29-31, 33, 36-37, 39-41; also includes lists of members.
Author : Holger Hoock
Publisher : Crown
ISBN 13 : 0804137293
Total Pages : 576 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (41 download)
Download or read book Scars of Independence written by Holger Hoock and published by Crown. This book was released on 2017-05-09 with total page 576 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A NEW YORK TIMES BOOK REVIEW EDITORS' CHOICE A magisterial new work that rewrites the story of America's founding The American Revolution is often portrayed as an orderly, restrained rebellion, with brave patriots defending their noble ideals against an oppressive empire. It’s a stirring narrative, and one the founders did their best to encourage after the war. But as historian Holger Hoock shows in this deeply researched and elegantly written account of America’s founding, the Revolution was not only a high-minded battle over principles, but also a profoundly violent civil war—one that shaped the nation, and the British Empire, in ways we have only begun to understand. In Scars of Independence, Hoock writes the violence back into the story of the Revolution. American Patriots persecuted and tortured Loyalists. British troops massacred enemy soldiers and raped colonial women. Prisoners were starved on disease-ridden ships and in subterranean cells. African-Americans fighting for or against independence suffered disproportionately, and Washington’s army waged a genocidal campaign against the Iroquois. In vivid, authoritative prose, Hoock’s new reckoning also examines the moral dilemmas posed by this all-pervasive violence, as the British found themselves torn between unlimited war and restraint toward fellow subjects, while the Patriots documented war crimes in an ingenious effort to unify the fledgling nation. For two centuries we have whitewashed this history of the Revolution. Scars of Independence forces a more honest appraisal, revealing the inherent tensions between moral purpose and violent tendencies in America’s past. In so doing, it offers a new origins story that is both relevant and necessary—an important reminder that forging a nation is rarely bloodless.
Author : Agnes C. Doyle
Publisher : Cambridge : Priv. print. at the Riverside Press
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 268 pages
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Download or read book A Contribution to the Bibliography of the History of the United States Navy written by Agnes C. Doyle and published by Cambridge : Priv. print. at the Riverside Press. This book was released on 1906 with total page 268 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Sheldon Samuel Cohen
Publisher : University of Delaware Press
ISBN 13 : 9780874135640
Total Pages : 292 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (356 download)
Download or read book Yankee Sailors in British Gaols written by Sheldon Samuel Cohen and published by University of Delaware Press. This book was released on 1995 with total page 292 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Yankee Sailors in British Gaols offers the first comprehensive account of American servicemen detained within the confines of Mill and Forton prisons, the principal land-based detention centers in Britain during the American Revolution. Forton and Mill during the course of the War of Independence held approximately 3,000 American prisoners, almost all of them naval personnel. In a few cases, these American prisoners were incarcerated for more than four years, a longer recorded period of incarceration in overseas prisons than in any United States war prior to Vietnam. Professor Cohen's examination of wide-ranging and widely scattered primary and secondary sources provides an extraordinarily detailed picture of life within the closed society of each prison, as well as insight into the various ways in which Britons and Americans outside the prisons provided legal and extralegal help to the rebel detainees."--BOOK JACKET.Title Summary field provided by Blackwell North America, Inc. All Rights Reserved
Author : Robert P. Watson
Publisher : Da Capo Press
ISBN 13 : 0306825538
Total Pages : 312 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (68 download)
Download or read book The Ghost Ship of Brooklyn written by Robert P. Watson and published by Da Capo Press. This book was released on 2017-08-15 with total page 312 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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 combat during the entirety of the war. Moored off the coast of Brooklyn until the end of the war, the derelict ship, the HMS Jersey, was a living hell for thousands of Americans either captured by the British or accused of disloyalty. Crammed below deck--a shocking one thousand at a time--without light or fresh air, the prisoners were scarcely fed food and water. Disease ran rampant and human waste fouled the air as prisoners suffered mightily at the hands of brutal British and Hessian guards. Throughout the colonies, the mere mention of the ship sparked fear and loathing of British troops. It also sparked a backlash of outrage as newspapers everywhere described the horrors onboard the ghostly ship. This shocking event, much like the better-known Boston Massacre before it, ended up rallying public support for the war. Revealing for the first time hundreds of accounts culled from old newspapers, diaries, and military reports, award-winning historian Robert P. Watson follows the lives and ordeals of the ship's few survivors to tell the astonishing story of the cursed ship that killed thousands of Americans and yet helped secure victory in the fight for independence.
Author : New York Public Library
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Total Pages : 430 pages
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Download or read book Bulletin of the New York Public Library written by New York Public Library and published by . This book was released on 1900 with total page 430 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Includes its Report, 1896-19 .
Author : Houshang Asadi
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
ISBN 13 : 178074031X
Total Pages : 320 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (87 download)
Download or read book Letters to My Torturer written by Houshang Asadi and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 2010-06-01 with total page 320 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Meet Brother Hamid. He knows how to get answers. “A searing and unforgettable account” (Publishers Weekly) comes to mass-market paperback Houshang Asadi’s Letters to My Torturer is one of the most harrowing accounts of human suffering to emerge from Iran and is now available for the first time in paperback. Kept in solitary confinement for over two years in an infamous Tehran prison, Asadi suffered inhuman degradations and brutal torture: suspended from the ceiling, beaten, and forced to bark like a dog, Asadi became a spy for the Russians, for the British – for anyone. Narrowly escaping execution as the government unleashed a bloody pogrom against political prisoners, Asadi was hauled before a sham court and sentenced to fifteen years. Here he confronts his torturer, speaking for those who will never be heard, and provides a glimpse into the heart of Iran and the practice of state-sponsored justice.
Author : Shahla Talebi
Publisher : Stanford University Press
ISBN 13 : 0804775818
Total Pages : 264 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (47 download)
Download or read book Ghosts of Revolution written by Shahla Talebi and published by Stanford University Press. This book was released on 2011-01-14 with total page 264 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Opening the enormous metal gate, the guard suddenly took away my blindfold and asked me, tauntingly, if I would recognize my parents. With my eyes hurting from the strange light and anger in my voice, I assured him that I would. Suddenly I was pushed through the gate and the door was slammed behind me. After more than eight years, here I was, finally, out of jail . . . ." In this haunting account, Shahla Talebi remembers her years as a political prisoner in Iran. Talebi, along with her husband, was imprisoned for nearly a decade and tortured, first under the Shah and later by the Islamic Republic. Writing about her own suffering and survival and sharing the stories of her fellow inmates, she details the painful reality of prison life and offers an intimate look at a critical period of social and political transformation in Iran. Somehow through it all—through resistance and resolute hope, passion and creativity—Talebi shows how one survives. Reflecting now on experiences past, she stays true to her memories, honoring the love of her husband and friends lost in these events, to relate how people can hold to moments of love, resilience, and friendship over the dark forces of torture, violence, and hatred. At once deeply personal yet clearly political, part memoir and part meditation, this work brings to heartbreaking clarity how deeply rooted torture and violence can be in our society. More than a passing judgment of guilt on a monolithic "Islamic State," Talebi's writing asks us to reconsider our own responses to both contemporary debates of interrogation techniques and government responsibility and, more simply, to basic acts of cruelty in daily life. She offers a lasting call to us all. "The art of living in prison becomes possible through imagining life in the very presence of death and observing death in the very existence of life. It is living life so vitally and so fully that you are willing, if necessary, to let that very life go, as one would shed chains on the legs. It is embracing, and flying on the wings of death as though it is the bird of freedom."
