![]() ![]() ![]() Overall, this collection offers a window into how prison populations were managed by their captors in wartime. Information provided by the shipping records includes the place of birth of prisoners, the health of the prisoners, and the port that their respective prison ships docked at. The records are drawn from British administered prisoner of war ships and their corresponding ports, which ranges from English towns like Plymouth, to colonial ports like Barbados in the West Indies. During the American Revolution and War of 1812, the large fleet battles of Europe were rare, with combats between smaller Frigates, Sloops, and Brigs far more. Although war changed little between the two Great Powers, it did lead to significant symbolic events like the burning of Washington and inspired the poem that led to the United States’ national anthem, “The Star Spangled Banner”. ![]() trade, the Royal Navy’s impressment of American seamen, and the American desire to expand its territory. The War of 1812 was incited by British attempts to restrict U.S. In 1818 they erected an elegant square three-story red brick Federal-style town house on the northwest corner of the President's Square (today's Lafayette Square).This collection contains prison ship records drawn from the War of 1812, an inconclusive military conflict between the United States and Great Britain. ![]() Decatur's share came to $30,000, and after the war he and his wife Susan invested the money in land near the President's House. Decatur and his officers and crew were acclaimed as heroes when they returned home, and all were awarded a portion of the Macedonian's $200,000 prize value. control of Lake Erie and diminishing the prospect of British attacks on western New York and winning the Battle of Lake Champlain, spoiling British invasion plans.Ĭommodore Stephen Decatur, a hero of the Tripolitan wars, burnished his fame on October 25, 1812, when his 56-gun frigate USS United States captured the 49-gun frigate HMS Macedonian. Navy included a victory by the USS Constitution ("Old Ironsides") over HMS Guerriere winning the Battle of Lake Erie, ensuring U.S. Navy's pluck and resourcefulness would inflict punishing setbacks on its larger opponent. Britain's navy began its war in North Atlantic waters with a crushing advantage over the United States in numbers of both ships and sailors, but events were to prove that the U.S. ![]()
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