Martyrs to the Revolution in the British Prison Ships in the Wallabout Bay
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Other witnesses speak of four, six, eight, and ten victims thus mur- AntWi, dered at different times. The suffering from Account, p H thirst during the hot nights was intense, but it was extremely dangerous to approach the port-hole to ascend for water. " Provoked by the continual cry for leave to ascend, when there was already one on deck, the sentry would push them back with the bayonet." By one of those thrusts, which was more spiteful and violent than common, Andros barely escaped with his ...life. On the 4th day of July, 1782, the prison- ers suffered the most brutal treatment, be- cause they presumed to remember the Dringg birth-day of our Independence. Their little banners were torn down and trampled under BRITISH PRISON-SHIPS. 31 foot by the guard ; and, for the crime of sing- ing a few patriotic songs, they were driven, at the point of the bayonet, below deck, long before the usual hour. Such music had no charms for the Scotch guard on duty. The spirit of liberty found no response in their breasts.
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