The miseries endured by American seamen during the Revolutionary War are documented in Captain Dring's account of his experience as a prisoner on the Jersey off the coast of Long Island. Originally published in 1829.
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This review is from: Recollections of the Jersey Prison Ship (American Experience Series) (Paperback)
Recollections of the Jersey Prison Ship is a first-person account of life aboard a Revolutionary War "hell hole" for a year spanning 1782-83. The ship was at anchor in New York Harbor for most of the war. The account was written by Thomas Dring in 1824, near the end of his life, and was compiled and edited by Albert Greene to form the present (short) book. The account is nothing short of jaw-dropping and amazing, well worth the two or three hours it takes to read. Almost twice as many men died on the Jersey as there were battle deaths during the Revolutionary War! I consider myself a student of history, and I had no idea this was happening.
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AMONG the varied events of the war of the American Revolution, there are few circumstances which have left a deeper impression on the public mind, than those connected with the cruel and vindictive treatment which was experienced by those of our unfortunate countrymen whom the fortune of war had placed on board the Prison-Ships of the enemy. Read the first page Key Phrases - Statistically Improbable Phrases (SIPs): (learn more)
board the jersey, spar deck, larboard side, hospital ships Key Phrases - Capitalized Phrases (CAPs): (learn more)
Gun Room, Long Island, New York, General Washington, Great Copper, Blackwell's Island, David Sproat, Good Hope, Joseph Bowen New!
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AMONG the varied events of the war of the American Revolution, there are few circumstances which have left a deeper impression on the public mind, than those connected with the cruel and vindictive treatment which was experienced by those of our unfortunate countrymen whom the fortune of war had placed on board the Prison-Ships of the enemy. Read the first page Key Phrases - Statistically Improbable Phrases (SIPs): (learn more)
board the jersey, spar deck, larboard side, hospital ships Key Phrases - Capitalized Phrases (CAPs): (learn more)
Gun Room, Long Island, New York, General Washington, Great Copper, Blackwell's Island, David Sproat, Good Hope, Joseph Bowen New!
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- Benjamin Franklin by Paul More in Back Matter
- Antiquities of Long Island; by Gabriel Furman. To which is added a Bibliography by Henry Onderdonk. jr. Ed. by Frank Moore. by Michigan Historical Reprint Series in Back Matter
- Generous Enemies: Patriots and Loyalists in Revolutionary New York (Early American Studies) by Judith L. Van Buskirk in Back Matter
- A Young Patriot: The American Revolution as Experienced by One Boy by Jim Murphy in Back Matter
- Daily Life During the American Revolution (The Greenwood Press Daily Life Through History Series) by Dorothy Denneen Volo in Back Matter
- The War for Independence and the Transformation of American Society: War and Society in the United States, 1775-83 (Warfare and History) by Harry M. Ward in Back Matter
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