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King George III of Great Britain had declared American forces traitors in 1775, which denied them prisoner-of-war status. However, British strategy in the early conflict included pursuit of a negotiated settlement, and so officials declined to try or hang them, the usual procedure for treason, to avoid unnecessarily risking any public sympathy the British might still enjoy. [3]
England transported an estimated 50,000 to 120,000 convicts and political prisoners, [7] as well as prisoners of war from Scotland and Ireland, to its overseas colonies in the Americas from the 1610s until early in the American Revolution in 1776, when transportation to America was temporarily suspended by the Criminal Law Act 1776 (16 Geo. 3. c.
Bound for America: The Transportation of British Convicts to the Colonies, 1718-1775 is a nonfiction historical book written by A. Roger Ekirch. It was originally published in 1987 and then reissued in 1990, and 1992 by Clarendon Press .
Sugar houses in New York City were used as prisons by occupying British forces during the American Revolutionary War. Out of 2,600 prisoners of war captured during the Battle of Fort Washington in November 1776, 1,900 would die in the following months at makeshift prisons throughout the city. [1]
Penal colony in the Andaman Islands, British Raj (c. 1890s) With the passage of the Transportation Act 1717, the British government initiated the penal transportation of indentured servants to Britain's colonies in the Americas, although none of the North American colonies were solely penal colonies. British merchants would be in charge of ...
Pages in category "American Revolutionary War prisoners of war held by Great Britain" The following 112 pages are in this category, out of 112 total. This list may not reflect recent changes .
Albemarle Barracks was a prisoner-of-war camp for British prisoners during the American Revolutionary War. History ... (some 2,000 British, upwards of 1,900 German ...
Pages in category "British prisoners of war in the American Revolutionary War" The following 6 pages are in this category, out of 6 total. This list may not reflect recent changes .