David Dzurec The American Revolution

The American Revolution refers to the period during the last half of the eighteenth century in which the Thirteen Colonies that became the United States of America gained independence from the British Empire. This article by David Dzurec explains how the experiences of prisoners of war during the American Revolution helped those fighting to gain American liberty. Dzurec has mentioned that the “barbarous and cruel nature of British treatment of prisoners allowed those, who supported the patriot cause to highlight the difference between themselves and their former colonial masters” In addition the author says, prisoners’ accounts appeared in newspapers, broadsides, and individual volumes, the plight of captive Americans became a form of shorthand
for the struggle of the entire nation as it tried to secure its independence from the ‘savage Britons’ The author has mentioned once that ,the treatment of the crew of the Yankee was made all the more egregious by the fact that English prisoners, taken by the Americans, have been treated with the most remarkable tenderness and generosity. (Pennsylvania Evening Post (Philadelphia), 7 November 1776) As to this article the defense of the American prisoners during the Revolution began at the highest level. As early as August 1775 George Washington decried the treatment of American prisoners in a letter to Thomas Gage, commander of British forces in North America. In his communication Washington noted that American soldiers were being detained in ‘a common Goal appropriate for Felons. (George Washington to Thomas Gage, 11 August 1775, and Thomas Gage to GeorgeWashington, 13 August 1775. Both can be found in The Writings of George Washington from the Original Manuscript Sources, 1745–1799, ed. John C. Fitzpatrick, vol. 3) I certainly think that these evidences have supported the author’s thesis strongly. These are qualifications the author have that make him qualified to write on the subject:Dr. Dzurec is an assistant professor in the Department of History. He received his B.A. from Fairfield University in 1999, an M.A. in History from the University of Connecticut in 2002, and his Ph.D. in History from (THE) Ohio State University in 2008.