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Dartmoor Massacre Near Plymouth England the British build the round Dartmoor prison . . . round prisons were all the rage at this time . . . It had multiple walls topped by barbed wire with bells every few feet, to alert the guards to escape attempts. The prison was originally used to house French prisoners from the war with Napoleon, but by 1815 those prisoners were replaced by American troops. On April 6th, 1815 there was even a riot of American prisoners demanding release as the War that had been officially over for two months. The guards opened fire, seven Prisoners were killed and 31 Americans wounded in an event that would become known as the Dartmoor Massacre. One of the dead was a 14-year-old boy. A joint British-American panel subsequently investigated the affair and awarded recompense to the families of the slain.
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