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The Wallabout Prison Ships: 1776-1783

The Wallabout Prison Ships: 1776-1783

Eugene L Armbruster

Paperback

General SociologyRegional: West

ISBN10: 9353603595
ISBN13: 9789353603595
Publisher: Alpha Edition
Published: Feb 25 2019
Pages: 34
Weight: 0.23
Height: 0.07 Width: 8.50 Depth: 11.00
Language: English
Long before the Brooklyn Navy Yard became a symbol of American industry, Wallabout Bay was a place of suffering and silence. The bay became a grave. In The Wallabout Prison Ships: 1776-1783, Brooklyn historian Eugene L. Armbruster reconstructs the story of the British prison ships that haunted these waters during the American Revolutionary War. Drawing together records and local memory, he traces how thousands of American prisoners of war were confined on rotting hulks off Wallabout Bay, Brooklyn, and how their unmarked deaths shaped the young republic's sense of sacrifice. At once a stark piece of American history nonfiction and a compact military history reference book, it anchors the 1776-1783 Revolutionary War not just on battlefields but in the hidden maritime world where so many captives perished, offering a rare lens on American Revolutionary War maritime history. Armbruster's study of the Wallabout Bay prison hulks sits between revolutionary war history book and Brooklyn Navy Yard history, preserving names, dates and places. Essential for revolutionary war researchers yet readable for American history students, it offers a compact, reliable guide to one of the war's most neglected episodes. Out of print for decades and now republished by Alpha Editions. Restored for today's and future generations. More than a reprint - a collector's item and a cultural treasure. For anyone interested in British prison ships, American prisoners of war and the wider sweep of American Revolutionary War maritime history, this prepared edition is a significant resource for any serious library.

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