Prisoners of War in Britain 1756 to 1815: A record of their lives, their romance and their sufferingsAbell, Francis
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Prisoners of War in Britain 1756 to 1815: A record of their lives, their romance and their sufferings
Abell, Francis
Military prisons -- Great Britain; Prisoners of war -- Great Britain; Prisons -- Great Britain
ARTICLES IN WOOD MADE BY THE PRISONERS AT SISSINGHURST
CASTLE, 1763 _To face p._ 132
_Reproduced by permission of the owner, Henry Neve,
Esq._
MEMORIAL TO FRENCH PRISONERS OF WAR WHO DIED AT NORMAN
CROSS. Unveiled July 28, 1914 134
NORMAN CROSS PRISON 137
_Hill’s Plan_, 1797–1803.
COLOURED STRAW WORK-BOX, MADE BY FRENCH PRISONERS OF
WAR _To face p._ 148
_Presented to the Author by Mrs. Ashley Dodd, of
Godinton Park, Ashford, Kent._
THE BLOCK HOUSE, NORMAN CROSS, 1809 _To face p._ 152
_From a sketch by Captain George Lloyd in the United
Service Museum, Whitehall._
PORTCHESTER CASTLE _To face p._ 166
_From the ‘Victoria History of England—South
Hampshire’, by permission of Messrs. Constable &
Co._
PLAN OF PORTCHESTER CASTLE, 1793 168
CLOCK MADE IN PORTCHESTER CASTLE, 1809, BY FRENCH
PRISONERS OF WAR, FROM BONES SAVED FROM THEIR
RATIONS _To face p._ 173
_In the Author’s possession._
BONE MODEL OF H.M.S. _VICTORY_ MADE BY PRISONERS OF
WAR AT PORTSMOUTH _To face p._ 176
_In the possession of Messrs. Doxford & Sons, Pallion,
Sunderland, by whose permission it is reproduced._
THE OLD TOWER PRISON, LIVERPOOL 187
_From an old Print._
MONUMENT AT VALLEYFIELD TO PRISONERS OF WAR 199
STAPLETON PRISON _To face p._ 212
_From the ‘Gentleman’s Magazine’_, 1814.
DARTMOOR WAR PRISON, IN 1812 236
_From a sketch signed ‘John Wethems’ in the Public
Record Office. Reproduced by permission of Basil
Thomson, Esq., and Colonel Winn._
DARTMOOR. THE ORIGINAL MAIN ENTRANCE 248
_From a sketch by the Author._
WOODEN WORKING MODEL OF A FRENCH TRIAL SCENE MADE BY
PRISONERS OF WAR AT DARTMOOR _To face p._ 251
_In the possession of Maberley Phillips, Esq., F.S.A.,
by whose permission it is reproduced._
BONE MODEL OF GUILLOTINE MADE BY PRISONERS OF WAR AT
DARTMOOR _To face p._ 256
_Now in the Museum, Plymouth, and reproduced here by
permission of the owner, Charles Luxmoore, Esq.,
from a photograph by Mr. J. R. Browning, Exeter._
DARTMOOR PRISON, ILLUSTRATING THE ‘MASSACRE’ OF 1815 _To face p._ 260
_From Benjamin Waterhouse’s ‘Journal of a Young Man of
Massachusetts’._
JEDBURGH ABBEY, 1812 _To face p._ 347
_From a painting by Ensign Bazin, a French prisoner of
war. Reproduced by permission of J. Veitch, Esq._
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