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Death barges of Wallabout Bay: during the War for Independence, the British kept many captured American soldiers and privateers in horrid conditions onboard overcrowded prison ships.(HISTORY--STRUGGLE FOR FREEDOM)
She began life in 1736 as a 60-gun frigate, a man-of-war built for battle on the high seas. For over 30 years HMS Jersey plied the Mediterranean and Atlantic in defense of British interests, seeing hard action in the bitter colonial wars of the 18th century.
By 1775, however, her days of glory were well behind her. The British Navy, second to none, had added newer ships to her fleet, and the Jersey slid quietly into obsolescence. Stripped of her spars and masts, she was classed as a hospital ship and eventually found herself wallowing in the mud flats of New York's Wallabout Bay, near the present-day site of the Brooklyn Shipyard. There she became known not as a ...
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- Press release article from: PR Newswire January 19, 2005 700+ words
...Mistreatment of prisoners of war has been a contentious topic in recent...British prison ships sat anchored in Wallabout Bay off New York City's East River...offered a ticket out. By the end of the war in 1783, it is estimated that as...
- N.Y. does fine impression of Emerald Isle.
- Newspaper article from: The Boston Herald Serviss, Naomi February 28, 1999 700+ words
...Manhattan, and you'll unearth a vast Irish-based repository. From the Lower East Side's Five Corners to Brooklyn's Wallabout Bay, the Gaelic influence is more dominant than ever. Plan to spend at least three days taking in Irish film and theater...
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- Newspaper article from: Connecticut Post (Bridgeport, CT) December 31, 2006 700+ words
...the Treaty of Paris ended the war, the United States negotiated...the writing of the rules of war." The abandoning of the prisoners...operations in North America was at Wallabout Bay, now the Brooklyn Navy Yard...John Downs, the Revolutionary War veteran and weaver here, wrote...
- CITY DESK - Death.(instances of disastrous loss of life in NYC history)(Brief...
- Magazine article from: National Review Brookhiser, Richard December 31, 2001 700+ words
...everything from accident to evil; by war, disease, riot, and fire...Britain during the Revolutionary War in the summer and fall of 1776...stale holds of ships moored in Wallabout Bay in the East River. The prison...the perceived cause of the war). "The city in insurrection...
- Zoo Unveils Ambitious Redevelopment Plan.(San Diego Zoo)(Brief Article)
- Magazine article from: San Diego Business Journal RODRIGUES, TANYA May 28, 2001 700+ words
...which made the project less expensive, Molter said. At that time -- two years ago -- the zoo wanted to tear down the Veterans War Memorial Building and build the parking structure on the site. Public opposition against the plan quickly followed, and the...
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- Magazine article from: San Diego Business Journal May 28, 2001 700+ words
...the theatre? Tickets are on sale now for the national tours, presented by Broadway San Diego, of the hit musicals The Civil War starring Larry Gatlin (June 26-July 1) and Saturday Night Fever, (July 24-29) at the San Diego Civic Theatre. Tickets...
- Panel Questions Military Need for New Aircraft Carrier.
- Newspaper article from: Knight Ridder/Tribune Business News June 13, 2001 700+ words
...to one another and share information about targets and other war-fighting strategies. As for CVNX, one official said, "It...technologies that will enable the transformation in fighting wars to take place. For Newport News Shipbuilding, the nation...
- Funding for Milwaukee Amtrak Station Runs Dry.
- Newspaper article from: Knight Ridder/Tribune Business News June 13, 2001 700+ words
...local officials, and at public libraries. PUBLIC HEARINGS on the Milwaukee-to-Madison line are set for: --June 26 at the War Memorial Center in Milwaukee. --June 27 at Madison East High School. --June 28 at Riverside Middle School in Watertown...
Source: HighBeam Research, Death barges of Wallabout Bay: during the War for Independence, the...