WAR OF INDEPENDENCE.
HISTORY RECALLED. DISCOVERY IN A VAULT. By Telegraph.--Press AwocUtiotl —Cony right. v London, August 23. Excavations , at- Fort Hancock, New Jersey, revealed a vault con- : taining the bodies of fourteen Bri-." tish naval officers and men who had been frozeia to death in 178,'J, the. year in which Great Britain acknowledged the independence of America. The boat occupied by the men drifted ashore; when they were chas- '.■:> ing deserters from the navy, and they perished in a snowstorm. The Unit ed States' Government is arranging for their v cintermen in the Cypress Hills Cemetery, Brooklyn.
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New Zealand Herald, Volume XLV, Issue 13839, 27 August 1908, Page 5
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