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The most horrific have difficulty of the North american Revolution happened just 100 back yards off New York, where more men passed away aboard a rotting prison ship than were lost to overcome during the entirety of the warfare. Moored from the coast of Brooklyn before end of the warfare, the derelict ship, the HMS Jersey, was a living hell for a large number of People in america either captured by the British or accused of disloyalty. Crammed belowdecks - a surprising 1,000 at the same time - without light or fresh air, the prisoners were scarcely given water and food. Disease ran rampant, and human being waste fouled the air as prisoners suffered mightily as a result of brutal British and Hessian guards. Through the entire colonies, the mere reference to the ship sparked dread and loathing of British troops. In addition, it sparked a backlash of outrage as papers everywhere described the horrors onboard the ghostly ship. This surprising event, much like the better-known Boston Massacre before it, ended up rallying general public support for the warfare. Revealing for the very first time a huge selection of accounts culled from old papers, diaries, and military reports, award-winning historian Robert P. Watson comes after the lives and ordeals of the ship's few survivors to tell the astonishing tale of the cursed ship that killed a large number of Americans and yet helped secure victory in the attack for independence.
