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Fragmentary notes on the French Prisoners in the West of England
and other places in the early part of the 19th Century

Trans. Devon Assoc., vol. 33, (1901), pp. 309-321.

by

J.D. Prickman

Prepared by Michael Steer

Between 1793 and 1815 approximately one quarter of a million prisoners of war were held in England. Between May 1809 and June 1811 there were 6,577 inmates at Dartmoor Prison of whom 622 died. Prisoners, it appears, were a mutual but secondary part of the national war policy. The attitude of ordinary Devon people to the prisoners is difficult to ascertain. According to Home Office reports there was a "natural antipathy" towards the French in particular, since they were widely regarded as a traditional enemy. The historical record, however, shows many acts of kindness and sympathy towards prisoners. Google with the Archive Organization has sponsored the digitisation of books from several libraries. The Internet Archive makes available, in its Community Texts Collection (originally known as Open Source Books), books that have been digitised by Google from a number of libraries. These are books on which copyright has expired, and are available free for educational and research use. This rare book was produced from a copy held by the New York Public Library, and is available from the Internet Archive.