Prisoners of War at Dartmoor: American and French Soldiers and Sailors in an English Prison During the Napoleonic Wars and the War of 1812

摘要

Trevor James' profusely illustrated Prisoners of War at Dartmoor is partly a brief history of, and partly a travel guide for, the notorious prison at Dartmoor, the desolate, windswept, stone "depot" 17 miles north of Plymouth, England. In the early years of the Napoleonic Wars, the British government built Dartmoor to house a burgeoning number of French army and navy prisoners. Deftly and economically, James covers the interesting stories of why and how the British built a prison on a moor, far from supplies, workers, or a free-spirited American seamen were subject to overcrowding, inadequate and tasteless food, and (until February 1814) no monetary allowance from their own government.