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And we continue with our American stories.

Historians have written so much about the American Revolution that it's hard to believe

there's anything left to discover about that war. But Robert Watson, a history professor at

Lynn University in Florida, is about to share with us a discovery he made when researching a terrible

prison ship run by the British during the Revolutionary War.

Professor Roberts tells the story in his book, The Ghost Ship of Brooklyn.

Let's take a listen.

So history still has her secrets.

We think we know all there is to know about major episodes in history, like the Revolutionary War.

But lo and behold, not only are there still some secrets waiting, but some real shockers.

One of them involved an infamous ship called the HMS Jersey, known as Hell Afloat, or the Ghost Ship.

Twice as many Americans died on this one ship, then died in the entirety of combat during the Revolutionary War.

Twice as many men. So how did that happen?

It starts with the construction of a ship in the 1730s called the HMS Jersey.

This ship was really a weapon of mass destruction for the day and age.

It was a marvel of technology and warfare.

Whatever the threshold of technology and warfare was for the

1700s was on this ship. She had a crew of over 400, dozens and dozens of major guns,

naval guns, multiple decks, multiple masks, an amazing, amazing ship. However, despite these advanced technologies, this ship

seemed to be cursed. She loses virtually every battle she's in, off the coast of Columbia.

She's destroyed. The crew catches a tropical disease, wipes out the crew, the captain of the ship dies mysteriously.

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