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Researching history is like putting a jigsaw puzzle together. You take little odd-shaped pieces and try to fit them together to create a complete picture. Along with others, I have been gathering information for years on Camp Security, where British prisoners of war were detained from 1781 to 1783. Click

Order to register prisoners paroled to Yorkers I gave a brief overview in my recent York Sunday News column of Camp Security, the 1781-1783 Revolutionary War prisoner of war camp just east of York. The whole column is at the end of this post. Camp Security is the last remaining