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The jail Ship Martyrs’ Monument in Fort author Park, within the the big apple town borough of Brooklyn, may be a memorial to the quite eleven,500 yankee jailers of war WHO died in captivity aboard sixteen British prison ships throughout the yankee Revolutionary War. The remains of alittle fraction of these WHO died on the ships area unit inhumed in an exceedingly burial chamber at a lower place its base. The ships enclosed the HMS Jersey, the Scorpion, the Hope, the Falmouth, the Stromboli, Hunter, and others.
Their remains were 1st gathered and inhumed in 1808. In 1867 landscape architects town Law Frederick Law Olmsted and landscaper, designers of green and Prospect Park, were engaged to arrange a replacement style for Washington Park further as a replacement burial chamber for the remains of the jail ship martyrs. In 1873, once urban growth hemmed in this website close to the Brooklyn shipyard, the remains were affected and re-interred in an exceedingly burial chamber at a lower place alittle monument.
Funds were raised for a bigger monument, that was designed by noted creator architect. Created of granite, its single Doric column 149 feet (45 m) tall sits over the burial chamber at the highest of a 100-foot (30 m)-wide thirty three step stairway. At the highest of the column is associate degree eight-ton bronze brasier, a ceremony urn, by sculptor Adolf Weinman. President-elect William Howard Taft delivered the principal address once the monument was dedicated in 1908.
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