More Americans died in British captivity than on the battlefield, and both armies found use for that fact.
Key TakeawaysRoughly 11,500 Americans died aboard British prison ships in Wallabout Bay, a toll that far exceeds the roughly 6,800 Americans killed in battle across the entire war.The HMS Jersey, launched in 1736 as a 60-gun fourth rate designed to carry about 400 sailors, held around 1,200 prisoners at a...





