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American Revolution Podcast

Episode 129 Prisoners of War

American Revolution Podcast

Michael Troy

History, Education

4.81.1K Ratings

🗓️ 29 December 2019

⏱️ 30 minutes

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Summary

Thousands of American Prisoners suffer and die in New York City prisons and prison ships during the Revolutionary War. Visit my site at https://blog.AmRevPodcast.com for more text, pictures, maps, and sources on this topic. Book Recommendation of the Week: Forgotten Patriots: The Untold Story of American Prisoners During the Revolutionary War, by Edwin G. Burrows. Online Recommendation of the Week: List of prisoners from the Jersey: http://www.usmm.org/revdead.html Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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land to financial services. Hello and thank you for joining the American Revolution.

0:49.0

Today episode 129, prisoners of war.

0:54.8

Following the New York campaign, the British found themselves with thousands of American

0:59.6

prisoners of war.

1:01.6

The first Geneva Convention guaranteeing certain rights for prisoners of war was still a century in the future.

1:08.0

In the 18th century, European armies typically took good care of enemy officers.

1:15.0

Sometimes enemy soldiers fared well, but sometimes not.

1:19.0

It was up to the captor how they wanted to treat their prisoners. It was not unheard of simply to execute

1:26.8

enemy prisoners under their care. In the case of the revolution, the British often did not consider captives even to be enemy

1:35.8

prisoners.

1:37.4

They were British rebels.

1:40.4

Rebels or traitors deserved execution and not even quick executions.

1:47.0

Traditionally, the government used drawing and quartering

1:50.4

or other brutal deaths to execute traders.

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