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HISTORY DOCUMENTARY

The American Revolutionary War was a bloody, contemptuous conflict born out of oppression suffered by the American colonies at the hands of Great Britain.

The many battles that took place between American militia forces and the British army resulted in devastating casualties and loss of life on both sides. But despite the tragic loss of lives wrought by the bloodshed, the real killer of the American Revolution was actually not the fighting itself - on the contrary, the deadliest place to be in the American colonies during the war was not on the landlocked battlefields, nor those at sea.

The place where condemned souls found themselves facing death most auspiciously during the war, was on board the horrid British prison ships - dark, damp, and oftentimes putrid floating jailhouses where most colonial POWs were left to starve.

The most notorious of these hellish ships was known as the HMS Jersey - a true Horror in History.

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Image Credits:

Saratoga
The American Revolution Institute

HMSJerseyColor
Journal of the American Revolution

HMSJersey2
The New York Public Library

Lice
Gilles San Martin
Wikimedia Commons

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Jazz Guy
Wikimedia Commons

PrisonShipMartyrs2
Jazz Guy
Wikimedia Commons

JunglePrison
National Museum of the United States Air Force


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