The American Revolution, which pitted the powerful British empire against 13 upstart colonies, wasn’t just fought on the North American continent. The “shot heard round the world” in Corcord, Massachusetts, also drew other European colonial empires into the struggle.
Many of their ambitions played out in the Caribbean islands—which, far from floating offstage from the American conflict, served as an integral theater of the Revolutionary War.
During the Revolutionary War, the British docked prison ships along the Eastern Seaboard. Eleven thousand men and boys are believed to have died on them—far more than died fighting on land. Read more.
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