Book Review #2: The Ghost Send Of Brooklyn - The Untold Floor Of TheAmerican Revolution

Welcome to my mo mass review, The Ghost Ship of Brooklyn - The Untold Story of the American Revolution, past times Robert P. Watson.

The Ghost Ship of Brooklyn

The Bailiwick of Jersey Prison Ship every bit moored at
the Wallabout close Long Island, inwards 1782

This is the shocking in addition to tragic notwithstanding largely-unknown even of the notorious HMS Jersey, an erstwhile rotting British warship that was used every bit a floating prison theater during the American Revolution. Influenza A virus subtype H5N1 carefully-researched even past times Robert P. Watson focusing on the struggles of American prisoners imprisoned aboard that ship, that everyone should read it! Moored off the coast of Brooklyn, inwards the shallows of Wallabout Bay, until the halt of the war, HMS Jersey was a living hell for thousands of Americans. Influenza A virus subtype H5N1 dreaded prison theater for American soldiers in addition to sailors who were captured inwards the battle, crews of captured American privateers, which constituted the principal population aboard the ships, in addition to civilians suspected of supporting the colonial crusade or refusing to swear an oath to the Crown. These unfortunate souls were incarcerated inwards the diseased in addition to deadly holds of this large floating coffin whose black and filthy appearance fitly represented decease in addition to despair.

Dr. Robert P. Watson, author of the book

Robert P. Watson, is a professor of history at Lynn University in addition to has published over iii dozen nonfiction books, 2 encyclopedia sets, iii novels, in addition to hundreds of scholarly mag articles, mass chapters, in addition to reference essays on topics inwards politics in addition to history. His book The Presidents' Wives, Affairs of the State, in addition to America's First Crisis, received the 2014 Gold Medal inwards History from the Independent Publishers' Association (IPPY). In his novel book, which volition live published on August 15^th, the author explores 1 of the worst tragedies inwards American military machine history; a prison theater send that the British believed would frighten patriots into submission. Revealing for the cause down fourth dimension hundreds of accounts culled from erstwhile newspapers, long-lost diaries, in addition to military machine reports, historian Robert P. Watson follows the lives in addition to ordeals of the ship's few survivors, to tell the astonishing even of the ghost send of the Revolutionary War that killed thousands of Americans in addition to notwithstanding helped secure victory inwards the care for independence. It is worth of scream that the ship's scream had function notorious, an object for terror, bringing panic in addition to nausea to those who knew that they were virtually to live incarcerated aboard that decease ship. Others attempted suicide or tried to escape. Those who survived in addition to afterwards on released besides every bit the few fortunate ones who managed to escape wrote detailed narratives of the sense offering inwards that way a firsthand telling of the atmospheric condition aboard this floating dungeon. Their testimonies inspired the struggle for independence every bit newspapers everywhere described the horrors onboard the send sparking a backlash of outrage throughout the colonies.

 

Prisoners aboard HMS Jersey. By Library of Congress

The author recalls in addition to artfully describes the struggles that occurred on this ghost send where roughly twice the total of American lives lost inwards fighting during the entirety of the war, died inwards her holds! More than a K prisoners at a fourth dimension were held aboard the HMS Jersey, the most infamous amid the prisons ships, that earned the nickname “Hell Afloat” or exactly “Hell”, for its inhumane atmospheric condition in addition to the obscenely high decease charge per unit of measurement of its prisoners! Prisoners crammed below deck inwards a rat-infested send designed 1 time for 400 sailors, inwards consummate darkness, breathing foul air in addition to listening inwards the nighttime the groans of the sick in addition to dying patch trying to residuum amongst the fearfulness of crazed men inwards the traveling pocket of illness or mental anguish due to the harsh atmospheric condition aboard this decease ship. The distressing atmospheric condition resulted inwards virtually to 6 to twelve men on average dying every solar daytime from diseases such every bit dysentery, smallpox, xanthous fever in addition to typhoid, of exposure to the mutual depression temperature or the suffocating heat, besides every bit from malnutrition, express in addition to polluted H2O in addition to the fell handling past times the cruel guards. One of the survivor said that no other send inwards the British navy always proved the agency of the devastation of in addition to then many human beings! 

But this tragedy has largely forgotten. Americans who met martyr’s deaths inwards defence of their country. Forgotten patriots who did non curvature the articulatio genus in addition to chose the almost sure decease instead of accepting the British offering to serve the Royal Navy after their capture. The vast bulk of those brave men were never heard again. Lost without prayers, tears or stones. Wretched souls whose bodies exactly dumped unceremoniously into shallow, unmarked graves on the Brooklyn shoreline. Robert Watson, through his well-written book, 1 of the undeniably few books devoted to the dependent area of the British prison theater ships, ensures the retentivity of these American Patriots volition never live forgotten.

I highly recommend this mass non alone to those who honey history inwards full general but to anyone who relish adventures in addition to sure enough to those who pursue to know to a greater extent than virtually interesting unheard stories in addition to black details from the the States War of Independence. It is an easy-to-read mass every bit the author provides all the necessary background inwards social club fifty-fifty mortal amongst express cognition virtually American Revolution, to live able to sympathise the background of the story. This is undoubtedly a mass you lot won’t live able to seat down! The Robert P. Watson’s The Ghost Ship of Brooklyn: An Untold Story of the American Revolution is available every bit a hardback in addition to eBook here.