Le butin de la guerre : les corsaires en Nouvelle-Écosse

After shipwreck and disease, the greatest risk facing privateersmen was captivity. Worst off were those jailed in fever-ridden Caribbean jails. But life in Halifax’s Melville Island prison was no picnic, thus escape attempts were common.

date: 1814

numéro de référence: Nova Scotia Archives  Newspapers: Acadian Recorder 15 October 1814 page 3