For those of you interested in American Revolution History, I highly recommend this book, a collection of the despicable acts the British military performed on American prisoners of war. I imagine this still goes on around the world in places like Former USSR, Syria, and wherever war occurs. “Paris March 30th. 1777. Benjamin Franklin, in a letter written in 1780, to a Mr. Hartley, an English gentleman who was opposed to the war, said that Congress had investigated the cruelties perpetrated by the English upon their defenceless prisoners, and had instructed him to prepare a school book for the use of American children, to be illustrated by thirty-five good engravings, each to picture some scene of horror, some enormity of suffering, such as should indelibly impress upon the minds of the school children a dread of British rule, and a hatred of British malice and wickedness!” Excerpt From: Dandridge, Danske. “American Prisoners of the Revolution.” iBooks. This material may be protected by copyright.
Posted on: Tue, 12 Nov 2013 23:44:05 +0000
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