Melville Prison And Deadmans Island American And French Prisoners Of War In Halifax 17841816

In this book, [the author] has concentrated on Melville Island as a war prison from the perspective of the prisoners and their relations with Lieutenant William Miller, the British naval officer in charge of the prison, and John Mitchell, the resident American agent for his country's prisoners of war from October 1813 to December 1814"--Page 6.