The harsh treatment of colonial Catholics in the 17th and 18th centuries stemmed from the Protestant Reformation starting 1517 in Europe. But that began to change during the American Revolution.
Battle of Brooklyn
‘This is Sacred Ground’: Event Pays Tribute to The First POWs
Dog walkers, joggers, and a wedding party swarmed about the Prison Ship Martyrs’ Monument at Fort Greene Park one recent weekend afternoon, perhaps unaware that entombed beneath them lay thousands of American prisoners from the Revolutionary War.