Prison Ship

Author : Martin Caidin
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9780671698140
Total Pages : 596 pages
Book Rating : 4.41/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Prison Ship written by Martin Caidin and published by . This book was released on 1989 with total page 596 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Inhabitants of the earth have learned to live in peaceful harmony, but a masterplan to conquer them is hatched by ruthless, depraved convicts and a band of human desperados--whose cruelty knows no bounds

Author : Paul Dowswell
Publisher : A&C Black
ISBN 13 : 1408829355
Total Pages : 253 pages
Book Rating : 4.56/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Prison Ship written by Paul Dowswell and published by A&C Black. This book was released on 2012-09-27 with total page 253 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Sam fights in a fierce battle against the Danish Fleet, led by none other than Admiral Nelson himself, and against all odds victory is theirs. Peace is declared and Britain's war with most of Northern Europe is over. Sam can go home. But on the journey back, he witnesses a crime, for which he is framed. He is sentenced to death, but at the last minute this sentence is commuted to transportation to Australia. With petty thieves, vicious criminals, women and other children, Sam begins an eight month journey to the other side of the world, and a life of slavery in the harsh Australian interior. He knows that, against all odds, he must escape.

Author : Marty Rhodes Figley
Publisher : Graphic Universe ™
ISBN 13 : 1467750646
Total Pages : 32 pages
Book Rating : 4.46/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Prison-Ship Adventure of James Forten, Revolutionary War Captive written by Marty Rhodes Figley and published by Graphic Universe ™. This book was released on 2014-01-01 with total page 32 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Captured at sea . . . a young man must choose between his country and his freedom. The Atlantic Ocean, 1781. James Forten is a free African American sailor on an American ship, the Royal Louis, during the Revolutionary War. After his ship is captured by the British, he becomes a prisoner on the Amphion. James worries that he will be sold as a slave. Will James ever see his home again?

Author : Robert P. Watson
Publisher : Da Capo Press
ISBN 13 : 0306825538
Total Pages : 312 pages
Book Rating : 4.38/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Ghost Ship of Brooklyn written by Robert P. Watson and published by Da Capo Press. This book was released on 2017-08-15 with total page 312 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The most horrific struggle of the American Revolution occurred just 100 yards off New York, where more men died aboard a rotting prison ship than were lost to combat during the entirety of the war. Moored off the coast of Brooklyn until the end of the war, the derelict ship, the HMS Jersey, was a living hell for thousands of Americans either captured by the British or accused of disloyalty. Crammed below deck--a shocking one thousand at a time--without light or fresh air, the prisoners were scarcely fed food and water. Disease ran rampant and human waste fouled the air as prisoners suffered mightily at the hands of brutal British and Hessian guards. Throughout the colonies, the mere mention of the ship sparked fear and loathing of British troops. It also sparked a backlash of outrage as newspapers everywhere described the horrors onboard the ghostly ship. This shocking event, much like the better-known Boston Massacre before it, ended up rallying public support for the war. Revealing for the first time hundreds of accounts culled from old newspapers, diaries, and military reports, award-winning historian Robert P. Watson follows the lives and ordeals of the ship's few survivors to tell the astonishing story of the cursed ship that killed thousands of Americans and yet helped secure victory in the fight for independence.

Author : Larry Lowenthal
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 180 pages
Book Rating : 4.71/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Hell on the East River written by Larry Lowenthal and published by . This book was released on 2009 with total page 180 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Far fewer people have heard of Wallabout Bay on the Brooklyn shore of the East River or know the terrible story of American sailors who were imprisoned there on wretched hulks like the Jersey. ... Hell on the East River uses the prisoners' own accounts to describe the agony of imprisonment, analyzes the number of deaths, examines the reasons for the tragedy, and describes the 100-year struggle to erect the present Prison Ship.

Author : Thomas Dring
Publisher : Westholme Pub Llc
ISBN 13 : 9781594161223
Total Pages : 128 pages
Book Rating : 4.24/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Recollections of Life on the Prison Ship Jersey in 1782 written by Thomas Dring and published by Westholme Pub Llc. This book was released on 2010 with total page 128 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Recollections of Life on the Prison Ship Jersey publishes for the first time the complete text of Thomas Dring’s handwritten manuscript, a major primary-source document, in which he describes the horrible conditions, treatment by guards, and experiences that he and others endured during captivity. The book is a plea not to forget but instead to remember the inhumanity of the captors and the sacrifices of the captives—a message that continues to resonate today. Editor David Swain has provided an introductory essay and extensive notes that contain background information and historical documentation to accompany and illuminate the original manuscript.

Author : Theresa Arnold-Scriber
Publisher : McFarland
ISBN 13 : 0786452935
Total Pages : 481 pages
Book Rating : 4.34/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Ship Island, Mississippi written by Theresa Arnold-Scriber and published by McFarland. This book was released on 2009-04-03 with total page 481 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Ship Island was used as a French base of operations for Gulf Coast maneuvers and later, during the War of 1812, by the British as a launching point for the disastrous Battle of New Orleans. But most memorably, Ship Island served as a Federal prison under the command of Union Major General Benjamin F. Butler during the Civil War. This volume traces this fascinating and somewhat sinister history of Ship Island. The main focus of the book is a series of rosters of the men imprisoned. Organized first by the state in which the soldier enlisted and then by the company in which he served, entries are listed alphabetically by last name and include information such as beginning rank; date and place of enlistment; date and place of capture; physical characteristics; and, where possible, the fate and postwar occupation of the prisoner.

Author : Edwin G. Burrows
Publisher : Basic Books
ISBN 13 : 0786727047
Total Pages : 360 pages
Book Rating : 4.49/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Forgotten Patriots written by Edwin G. Burrows and published by Basic Books. This book was released on 2008-11-11 with total page 360 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Between 1775 and 1783, some 200,000 Americans took up arms against the British Crown. Just over 6,800 of those men died in battle. About 25,000 became prisoners of war, most of them confined in New York City under conditions so atrocious that they perished by the thousands. Evidence suggests that at least 17,500 Americans may have died in these prisons—more than twice the number to die on the battlefield. It was in New York, not Boston or Philadelphia, where most Americans gave their lives for the cause of independence. New York City became the jailhouse of the American Revolution because it was the principal base of the Crown's military operations. Beginning with the bumper crop of American captives taken during the 1776 invasion of New York, captured Americans were stuffed into a hastily assembled collection of public buildings, sugar houses, and prison ships. The prisoners were shockingly overcrowded and chronically underfed—those who escaped alive told of comrades so hungry they ate their own clothes and shoes. Despite the extraordinary number of lives lost, Forgotten Patriots is the first-ever account of what took place in these hell-holes. The result is a unique perspective on the Revolutionary War as well as a sobering commentary on how Americans have remembered our struggle for independence—and how much we have forgotten.

Author : Thomas Dring
Publisher : Applewood Books
ISBN 13 : 0918222923
Total Pages : 173 pages
Book Rating : 4.23/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Recollections of the Jersey Prison Ship written by Thomas Dring and published by Applewood Books. This book was released on 1986-11 with total page 173 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The miseries endured by American seamen during the Revolutionary War are documented in Captain Dring's account of his experience as a prisoner on the Jersey off the coast of Long Island. Originally published in 1829.

Author : Henry Reed Stiles
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 76 pages
Book Rating : 4.59/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Letters from the Prisons and Prison-ships of the Revolution written by Henry Reed Stiles and published by . This book was released on 1865 with total page 76 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: