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The parish of Stapleton was once home to soldiers and sailors who were interned in Stapleton Prison as prisoners of war during the French Revolutionary and Napoleonic Wars, captured fighting Britain and its allies between 1792 and 1814.
Many of the prisoners had been fighting for liberté, égalité and fraternité, as the foot soldiers of a revolution that swept away tyrants and made the old powers of Europe tremble. In a cruel irony, a large contingent held in Stapleton had been captured in the Caribbean whilst trying to deny this same freedom to others, having failed to reintroduce slavery to France’s rebellious colony Saint-Domingue (modern Haiti).
This is the story of the Misérables of Bristol
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Chris Bowkett interrogates the murky past of a long-forgotten Bristol institution, painting a vivid picture of life and death in Stapleton Prison. In doing so he places Fishponds in the midst of the tumultuous events which beset Britain as the 13 fledgling states of America threw off the imperial yoke, and Britain’s neighbour across the channel decapitated the monarchy and began new life as a republic.
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Mike Jempson
My review of Chris’ book has been published on `West England `Bylines. https://westenglandbylines.co.uk/society/heritage/international-prisoners-of-war-in-old-fishponds-bristol/
And its on my website,