Researchers dig up evidence of Revolutionary War prison camp in PA after decadeslong search
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A team of researchers believes they have found the site of a Revolutionary War prison camp that housed captured soldiers from 1781-1783.
Fieldwork at the site, which also includes the lower-security Camp Indulgence, has gone on for decades, but the exact spot of Camp Security — where prisoners from the 1781 Battle of Yorktown, Virginia, were kept — had been unknown until a telltale pattern of post holes in a foot-deep trench was uncovered. Andrew Mark Miller is a writer at Fox News. Find him on Twitter @andymarkmiller and email tips to AndrewMark.Miller@Fox.com.
The newly discovered camp was believed to have housed 1,000 English, Scottish and Canadian soldiers for 22 months during the Revolutionary War, beginning with a group of soldiers captured after they surrendered at Saratoga, New York, in 1777.