Commemoration Planned for Wallabout Prison Ship Victims
A monument honoring 11 500 victims of the Wallabout prison ships is being erected on Fort Green Hill in Brooklyn to mark over a century of neglect and remember the Revolutionary War martyrs.
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Newspaper
Dahlonega Nugget
Location
Dahlonega, Georgia, United States of America
Date
Jul 09, 1909
Page
4
A monument honoring 11 500 victims of the Wallabout prison ships is being erected on Fort Green Hill in Brooklyn to mark over a century of neglect and remember the Revolutionary War martyrs.
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