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Prisoners and Prizes in the Caribbean in the Eighteenth Century

Prisoners and Prizes in the Caribbean in the Eighteenth Century . Dr Renaud Morieux (University of Cambridge). Source: HCA 30/239, 22 February 1745.

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Prisoners and Prizes in the Caribbean in the Eighteenth Century

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  1. Prisoners and Prizes in the Caribbean in the Eighteenth Century • Dr Renaud Morieux (University of Cambridge)

  2. Source: HCA 30/239, 22 February 1745

  3. ‘I am sorry to find myself without orders from my court to establish Flags of Truce for the relief of unfortunate subjects of both Crowns, and in the interim I have taken what steps I can with other governors of his Britainick (sic) Majesty’s dominions untill such orders come to me’ (Spanish Governor of Cuba to British Governor of Florida) • Source: National Archives, PRO 30/11/67

  4. ‘Because these services were solely for their advantage and security, […] all prisoners of war, taken in the Plantations are constantly subsisted at the charge of those Colonies where they are taken’. Council of Trade and Plantations to the governor of Virginia, 1713

  5. ‘Admiral Knowles […] said that the Northern colonies used to buy French prisoners at a great price one of another, for a pretence to go to the French Islands, that he had at length been obliged to threaten the French Governors that he would send to England all French prisoners, if they delivered any English to the Northern flags of truce.’ • Board of Trade and Plantations, session of 6 December 1750

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