Excerpt from Index to Certified Copy of List of American Prisoners of War, 1812-1815: As Recorded in General Entry Book, Ottawa, Canada, List of American Prisoners of War, Who Died at Princetown, Dartmoor, England, 1812-1815Many valuable historical records were destroyed when the British burned the Capitol, August 24, 1814. This doubtless accounts for the fact that our government did not possess a list of our soldiers and sailors who had been taken prisoners during the war with Great Britain, 1812-1814.About the PublisherForgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.comThis book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully, any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.