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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 Crowns 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.
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Edwin G. Burrows is Distinguished Professor of History at Brooklyn College of the City University of New York. He is the co-author of Gotham: A History of New York City to 1898, which won the 1999 Pulitzer Prize for History, and has received awards also from the Municipal Art Society, the St. Nicholas Society, and the New York Society Library, among others. Mayor Rudolph Giuliani named him a “Centennial Historian of New York.” For the past five years Burrows has been a Distinguished Lecturer for the Organization of American Historians, and he serves on the board of the Dyckman Farmhouse Museum in Manhattan. He lives in Northport, New York.
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Hardback. Condition: Very Good. 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 hellholes. 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. Seller Inventory # CIN0465008356VG
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Hard Cover. Condition: Fine-. Dust Jacket Condition: Fine. 363 pages, illustrated. "During the Revolutionary War, some 200,000 Americans took up arms against the British Crown. Just over, 6,800 of those men died in battle. More than four times that number- as many as 32, 000 soldiers, seamen, and civilians -became prisoners of war. Until now, their story as remianed untold." FINE- HARDCOVER, FINE DUST JACKET. Size: 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. Seller Inventory # 032399
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Hardcover. Condition: Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: fine. First edition. Fine in fine dust jacket. First edition, first printing. Hardcover. 364 pp. with bibliography, index. During the Revolutionary War, some 200,000 Americans took up arms against the British Crown; just over 6,800 of those men died in battle but more than four times that number---as many as 32,000 soldiers, seamen and civilians---became prisoners of war. As the principal base of Britain's military operations, New York City became the jailhouse of the American Revolution. This work tells the story of the American captives stuffed into a hasty assemblage of public buildings, sugar houses, and priosn ships where the priosners were shockingly overcrowded and underfed---some so hungry they ate their own clothes and shoes. The POWs perished by the thousands. Pulitzer prize-winning author Edwin Burrowsshows that as many as 18,000 Americans may have died as prisoners, the vast majority in New York. Seller Inventory # E31397