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VERY FINE. AN EXTREMELY RARE WAR OF 1812 PRISONER LETTER, SENT THROUGH THE BRITISH EUROPEAN BLOCKADE TO FRANCE AND THEN BY PRISONER-OF-WAR CARTEL TO ENGLAND WITH THE "TRANSPORT OFFICE PRISONERS OF WAR" MARKING.
The contents of the letter reference the significantly increased British forces, particularly in the Chesapeake Bay and New York. Transatlantic ships during this period had to not only run the gauntlet of British ships off North America, but also the British blockade of Napoleonic Europe (Image)