A journal, of a young man of Massachusetts, late a surgeon on board an American privateer, who was captured at sea by the British...and was confined first, at Melville island, Halifax, then at Chatham, in England, and last at Dartmoor prison. Interspersed with observations, anecdotes and remarks, tending to illustrate the moral and political characters of three nations. To which is added, a correct engraving of Dartmoor prison, representing the massacre of American prisoners.
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Title
A journal, of a young man of Massachusetts, late a surgeon on board an American privateer, who was captured at sea by the British...and was confined first, at Melville island, Halifax, then at Chatham, in England, and last at Dartmoor prison. Interspersed with observations, anecdotes and remarks, tending to illustrate the moral and political characters of three nations. To which is added, a correct engraving of Dartmoor prison, representing the massacre of American prisoners.
Subject
Dartmoor Prison.
Description
"A novel founded on fact." --Allibone, Crit. Dict., III, p. 2599.
Creator
Waterhouse,Benjamin,1754-1846.
Date
1816.
Language
eng
Type
text
Identifier
http://purl.dlib.indiana.edu/iudl/general/VAC2160
Citation
Waterhouse,Benjamin,1754-1846., “A journal, of a young man of Massachusetts, late a surgeon on board an American privateer, who was captured at sea by the British...and was confined first, at Melville island, Halifax, then at Chatham, in England, and last at Dartmoor prison. Interspersed with observations, anecdotes and remarks, tending to illustrate the moral and political characters of three nations. To which is added, a correct engraving of Dartmoor prison, representing the massacre of American prisoners.,” The War of 1812 in the Collections of the Lilly Library, accessed May 19, 2024, https://collections.libraries.indiana.edu/warof1812/items/show/2545.