Michael Adelberg: The Monmouth County Jailbreak of 1781

from Dispatches: The Podcast of the Journal of the American Revolution

This week our guest is Michael Adelberg. In 1781, Loyalists prisoner broke out of the Monmouth County Jail in New Jersey. It was a harrowing chapter in the ongoing drama of the American Revolution.

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