Dangerous Guests by Ken Miller PAPERBACK 9781501725883

Dangerous Guests\nby Ken Miller\nPaperback\nEnglish\n\nBrand new copy from BookCurl \u2013 the UK independent online bookseller.\n\n------------------------------\nBook details\n------------------------------\nAuthor: Ken Miller\nTitle: Dangerous Guests\nFormat: Paperback\nLanguage: English\nTopic: Specific wars and campaigns\nPublisher: Cornell University Press\nPublication year: 2018\nISBN-13: 9781501725883\nISBN-10: 1501725882\n\n------------------------------\nDescription\n------------------------------\n\nIn Dangerous Guests, Ken Miller reveals how wartime pressures nurtured a budding patriotism in the ethnically diverse revolutionary community of Lancaster, Pennsylvania. During the War for Independence, American revolutionaries held more than thirteen thousand prisonersboth British regulars and their so-called Hessian auxiliariesin makeshift detention camps far from the fighting. As the Americans' principal site for incarcerating enemy prisoners of war, Lancaster stood at the n.