1854 engraving, Tomb of the Martyrs in Fort Greene, Brooklyn, Long Island, New York.
The Prison Ship Martyrs' Monument in Fort Greene Park, in the New York City borough of Brooklyn, is a memorial to the more than 11,500 American prisoners of war who died in captivity aboard sixteen British prison ships during the American Revolutionary War. Their remains were first gathered and interred in 1808.
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