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
Prothée 583 10 }
Crown 608 3 }
San Damaso 726 32 }
Vigilant 590 8 }
Guildford 693 8 }
San Antonio 820 9 }
Vengeance 692 7 }
Veteran 592 7 } = 1½%
Suffolk 683 6 }
Assistance 727 35 }
Ave Princessa 769 9 }
Kron Princessa 760 4 }
Waldemar 809 1 }
Negro 175 0 }
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9,227 139
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Dupin also published tables of prison mortality in England in
confirmation of the belief among his countrymen that it was part of
England’s diabolic policy to make prisoners of war or to kill or
incapacitate them by neglect or ill-treatment. Between 1803 and 1814,
the total number of prisoners brought to England was 122,440. Of these,
says M. Dupin,
There died in English prisons 12,845
Were sent to France in a dying state 12,787
Returned to France since 1814, their health more or less
debilitated 70,041
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95,673
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leaving a balance of 26,767, who presumably were tough enough to resist
all attempts to kill or wreck them.
To this our authorities replied with the following schedule:
Died in English prisons 10,341
Sent home sick, or on parole or exchanged, those under the two
last categories for the most part perfectly sound men 17,607
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27,948
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leaving a balance of at least 94,492 sound men; for, not only, as has
been said above, were a large proportion of the 17,607 sound men, but no
allowance was made in this report for the great number of prisoners who
arrived sick or wounded.
Public-domain text, read in full here on John Shaqi.
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