Many of the people who died on the prison ships were non-combatants, women and children and old people. Look at any of the geneology references that fill our local libraries in Connecticut for examples.
As for the camps, are you talking about during the war, or after the war? During the war, it was done by both sides. It seems to have been "the way things were done" at the time. It was done on the grand scale more by the rebels, because (by the end of the war) they were more numerous. It was also done on a local level (troops occupying a town, and forcing all of the residents into a jail, or even on a house by house basis, with rape and murder and beatings and robbery the norm). After the war, there was only one side (which is why many of my family whose older siblings were born in New Jersey and Pennsylvania suddenly were born in Canada). One fictional example is found in "My Brother Sam is Dead" (speaking of 5th grade history.) Of course, then there is this one Teeple, who fled as a child to Canada with his parents, then had to flee BACK to America when charged with insurrection to the crown, all withing a few years. On 8/18/06, Larry Lyons <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > There is ample evidence that the revolutionaries put loyalists in > concentration camps. What evidence is there that the British did the same to > pro independence supporters in loyalist areas? > > The prison ships however were a different case entirely, they were prisoners > of war. ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~| Introducing the Fusion Authority Quarterly Update. 80 pages of hard-hitting, up-to-date ColdFusion information by your peers, delivered to your door four times a year. http://www.fusionauthority.com/quarterly Archive: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/CF-Community/message.cfm/messageid:213536 Subscription: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/CF-Community/subscribe.cfm Unsubscribe: http://www.houseoffusion.com/cf_lists/unsubscribe.cfm?user=89.70.5
