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Message from the President of the United States transmitting a report of the Secretary of State prepared on obedience to a resolution of the House of Representatives of the 4th inst. in relation to the transactions at Dartmoor Prison in the month of April last, so far as the American prisoners of war, there confined, were affected by such transaction.

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Format:
Book
Government document
Author/Creator:
United States. Department of State 8868
Contributor:
United States. President (1809-1817 : Madison)
United States. Congress. House
United States. Congress 1815-1816)
Language:
English
Subjects (All):
Dartmoor Prison--29898.
Dartmoor Prison.
United States--History--War of 1812--Prisoners and prisons.
United States.
Physical Description:
184 p. (folded) ; 23 cm. (8vo)
Contained In:
United States. Congress (14th, 1st session : 1815-1816). [State papers, v.2].
Place of Publication:
Washington : Printed by William A. Davis, 1816.
Notes:
At head of title: 36.
"January 31, 1816, read, and ordered to lie upon the table."
Addressed to the House and dated January 31st, 1816; the report is dated Department of State, January 31st, 1816.
Consists of diplomatic correspondence between the United States and Great Britain, testimony given before the coroner and justices of the peace in Devon, and further correspondence concerning the prisoners.
Includes a folded table of those killed and wounded on the evening of 6th April 1815.
Signatures: [1]-23[superscript 4].
Local Notes:
Retrospective conversion record: RLIN.
HSP in LCP.
Cited in:
Shaw & Shoemaker, 39554.
Greely, A. W. Public documents, p. 762.

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