Prison Ship Martyrs' Monument - Credit: Wikimedia Commons
Prison Ship Martyrs' Monument - Credit: Wikimedia Commons
The Prison Ship Martyrs' Monument is a war memorial at Fort Greene Park, in the New York City borough of Brooklyn. It commemorates more than 11,500 American prisoners of war who died in captivity aboard sixteen British prison ships during the American Revolutionary War. The remains of a small fraction of those who died on the ships are interred in a crypt beneath its base. The ships included HMS Jersey, Scorpion, Hope, Falmouth, Stromboli, Hunter, and others.Cray, "Commemorating the Prison Ship Dead", pp. 568–9.Wilson, James Grant. The memorial History of the City of New-York, From its First Settlement to the Year 1892, vol. IV New York:New-York History Company, 1893, pp. 8–9. Accessed: January 22, 2012 Read more on Wikipedia
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