Prisoners of War in Britain 1756 to 1815 / A record of their lives, their romance and their sufferings

by Francis Abell

‘Put them on their honour,’ replied the lady.

General Courcelles, at Verdun, shut up 140 middies in the monastery at St. Vannes, and made them pay for maintenance.

[17]. I failed to find a single grave-stone of a French prisoner of war at Wincanton.

[18]. For a letter from a former Leicester prisoner of this date, the reader may be referred to p. [306].

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TRANSCRIBER’S NOTES

1. P. [297], changed “trés sincèrement attachés, tant par les doux façons qu’il a scu toujours avoir pour nous, même en executant” to “très sincèrement attachés, tant par les doux façons qu’il a scu toujours avoir pour nous, même en exécutant”.
2. P. [405], changed “netant” to “n’etant”.
3. Silently corrected typographical errors and variations in spelling.
4. Retained anachronistic, non-standard, and uncertain spellings as printed.
5. Footnotes have been re-indexed using numbers and collected together at the end of the last chapter.