Book description
Relieve Us of This Burthen is the first book-length study of Continental soldiers, officers, and militiamen held as prisoners of war by the British in the South during the American Revolution. Carl P. Borick focuses his study on the period 1780-82, when British forces most actively campaigned in the South.…
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Why do we read history?
It is more than the parade of facts, one after the other in a pedantic trail of austere prose. History should grab you and rivet your attention to a subject so personal and so meaningful you can’t look away. If you agree, this book has it all.
Borick looked in a very unpromising place, the British records of Americans captured in the surrender of Charleston in May 1780, and found gold. The book is the heart-wrenching story of thousands of Americans sentenced to years rotting in dank cellars, or, far worse, on murderous prison ships.…
From Robert's list on the Southern Campaign of the American Revolution.
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