A Christmas Reminder Being The Names Of About Eight Thousand Persons A Small Portion Of The Number Confined On Board The British Prison Ships During The War Of The Revolution PDF Download

Excerpt from A Christmas Reminder: Being the Names of About Eight Thousand Persons, a Small Portion of the Number Confined on Board the British Prison Ships During the War of the Revolution Wales and Transport can be found though their log-books make very frequent mention of prisoners having been received on board. The list here presented is therefore but a small por tion of those of our fellow citizens who were confined on board those floating Golgothas. Nor is it possible to designate which of these names died on board, but authentic history, within the memory of the parents of many now living, proves that the number that died and were buried on our shores, and over whose remains we now desire to erect a monument worthy of these patriots, numbered more than twelve thousand. From these floating dungeons, the hearts of whose keepers must have delighted in the luxury of woe, the bodies of our countrymen after death Were taken on shore, and one of our Revolutionary poets thus describes the manner in which their remains were disposed of. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.