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** BRISTOL (STAPLETON) - P.O.W.s PETITION LETTER TO THE TRANSPORT OFFICE IN LONDON; Lengthy fine 25 Oct. 1809 EL (full contemporary? manuscript English translation) headed from "Des Prisons de Guerre de Stapleton" to the Transport Office in London (unsealed) with 35 POWs' names/signatures at the foot asking for their release as they had been captured in 1803 on 'Le Mars' which had been taking them - all badly wounded soldiers - back to France from Haiti. They ended up being held in Jamaica initially and then they were taken to Britain. [See MFPWE, p.131.] [Ex Cavendish 11 Sept. 2014, lot 1075.] Cross Reference: BRISTOL, MILITARY - P.O.W. MAIL, HAITI, JAMAICA
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