Dangerous Guests: Enemy Captives and Revolutionary Communities During the War for Independence

Author/Contributor(s):	Miller, Ken
Publisher:	Cornell University Press
Date:	03/15/2018
Binding:	Paperback
Condition:	NEW

In Dangerous Guests, Ken Miller reveals how wartime pressures nurtured a budding patriotism in the ethnically diverse revolutionary community of Lancaster, Pennsylvania. During the War for Independence, American revolutionaries held more than thirteen thousand prisoners--both British regulars and their so-called Hessian auxiliaries--in makeshift...