Parole towns in Britain [ Cities ]
… Image Thomas Rowlandson, 'Bodmin Cornwall: French Prisoners on Parole', Yale Center for British Art, B1975.3.145, 1795. Image 'Certificate of Prisoner of War on … in Bishops Waltham. Intercepted letter dated 10th January 1812.TNA ADM 105/61 Abstract During Britain’s war with Revolutionary and Napoleonic France (1793-1815), thousands of captured French officers and other captives were placed on parole in towns across the British Isles. Paroled, sometimes for many …
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