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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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

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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.

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