August 11, 1775: Washington Gets Serious About POWs

While today is perhaps the earliest documented instance of George Washington expressing concern for his captured troops, it certainly wouldn’t be the last. For years he worried about this, largely because the British didn’t always consider the Continental Army to be a genuine army, nor did they consider themselves to be “at war” with America; […] The post August 11, 1775: Washington Gets Serious About POWs appeared first on 250 and Counting.