AFTER MANY YEARS.
THE FATE OF BRITISH SAILORS. WHAT EXCAVATIONS REVEALED. Received August 26, 9.20 a.m. NEW YORK, August 25. Excavations at Fort Hancock, New Jersey, revealed a vault in which were the bodies of fourteen British naval officers and men frozen to death in 1783. They had drifted ashore while chasing deserters. The United States Government is arranging for their re-interment at Cypress Hills, Brooklyn.
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Wairarapa Age, Volume XXXI, Issue 9176, 27 August 1908, Page 5
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66AFTER MANY YEARS. Wairarapa Age, Volume XXXI, Issue 9176, 27 August 1908, Page 5
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