Report on the Means of accommodating Prisoners of War in Edinburgh Castle or elsewhere in North Britain, and of the numbers that can be conveniently accommodated at each place of Confinement
report, papers
Accession Number
NAM.1974-12-28-5
Description
Manuscript ‘Report on the Means of accommodating Prisoners of War in Edinburgh Castle or elsewhere in North Britain, and of the numbers that can be conveniently accommodated at each place of Confinement’, 1 Oct 1810. Details of places in Scotland where Cathcart thought 8,250 French prisoners could be accommodated. Signed by him and dated Edinburgh. From a collection of 14 manuscript letters of Gen Lord William Cathcart, 1803-1812. Associated with the Napoleonic Wars (1803-1815).
Campaigns
Napoleonic Wars, POWs United Kingdom (1803-1815)
Associated collection