340: Nicholas Guyatt, Prisoners of War and the War of 1812
Ben Franklin's World
Liz Covart
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🗓️ 11 October 2022
⏱️ 77 minutes
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Summary
The War of 1812 is an under-known conflict in United States history. It’s not a war that many Americans think about or dwell upon. And it was not a war that the United States can claim it clearly won.
Nicholas Guyatt, a Professor of North American History at the University of Cambridge, joins us to investigate the War of 1812 and the experiences of American prisoners of war using details from his book, The Hated Cage: An American Tragedy in Britain’s Most Terrifying Prison.
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| 0:00.0 | You're listening to an AirWave Media Podcast. |
| 0:04.0 | Ben Franklin's World is a production of the Omahaundrow Institute, and it's sponsored |
| 0:08.2 | by the Colonial Williamsburg Foundation. |
| 0:11.0 | Hello, and welcome to episode 340 of Ben Franklin's World. |
| 0:24.2 | The podcast dedicated to helping you learn more about how the people and events of our |
| 0:28.5 | early American past have shaped the present-day world we live in. |
| 0:32.4 | And I'm your host, Liz Covart. |
| 0:35.0 | The War of 1812 is really an under-known conflict in United States history. |
| 0:39.0 | It's not a war like the American Revolution or the American Civil War that many Americans |
| 0:43.3 | think about or dwell upon. |
| 0:44.9 | In fact, it's also not a war where Americans can claim that they won. |
| 0:49.0 | If anything, the War of 1812 ended in a stalemate. |
| 0:52.8 | Nicholas Skye, a professor of North American history at the University of Cambridge, joins |
| 0:57.4 | us to investigate the War of 1812, any experiences of American prisoners of war. |
| 1:02.6 | Specifically, Nicholas details from his book The Hated Cage, an American tragedy in |
| 1:07.5 | Britain's most terrifying prison. |
| 1:09.4 | To take his inside Great Britain's Dartmoor prison and the experiences of the American |
| 1:13.5 | sailors who were helped there. |
| 1:15.7 | Now during our exploration of Dartmoor prison, Nick reveals a brief history of the War |
| 1:20.4 | of 1812 and its causes. |
| 1:22.8 | The history of Dartmoor prison and what was thought to be an ideal place to house Great |
| 1:26.7 | Britain's prisoners of war. |
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