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The siege of Penobscot - 1779
Not Paul Revere's (and others') most glorious moment...
An excellent book on it is Bernard Cornwell's The Fort
u/Regulid — 3 days ago

Not Paul Revere's (and others') most glorious moment...
An excellent book on it is Bernard Cornwell's The Fort
Pictures of my Dutch grandfather's POW transfer card to Oflag VIIIC Colditz.
He was at Colditz until 1943, when Dutch prisoners were transferred further East.
He was actually an officer in the Dutch colonial army in Indonesia. Luckily, he was on "home" leave with my grandmother and mother when the Germans invaded. Luckily, because it was the Germans who captured him, not the Japanese. None of his colleagues or their families in the Indies when the Japanese invaded survived...