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Description: | Troops embarked from Fareham for the Peninsular War in Spain in locally built ships and during the Napoleonic Wars there were a number of large grain stores around the quayside that were converted into sick bays for the wounded. It is thought that a primitive hospital was set up in Lower Quay for very ill prisoners from the hulks and Portchester Castle and those who died were buried in what became known as Hospital Field. Many of the prisoners were kept in hulks on Fareham Lake. By the end of the war, there were over 9,000 prisoners kept on the hulks, Portchester Castle and Forton prison. Many locals viewed the prisoners with a mixture of horror and fascination, fear of disease and seeing the only foreigners they would ever see in their lives.
References:
1. Brown, Ron. 1983. Fareham of yesteryear, p. 43-44.
2. Burton, Lesley and Musselwhite, Brian. 1991. An illustrated history of Fareham, p. 80-81. | Format: | image/jpeg | License: | http://www.sopse.org.uk/ixbin/hixclient.exe?a=query&p=gateway&f=generic_sitetext%2ehtm&_IXFIRST_=1&_IXMAXHITS_=1&cms_con_core_subtype%3acms_con_text_what=copyright&%3acms_sys_group=%22sopse%22 | Subjects: | hulks building Ladyline Lower Quay Ladyline Fareham Marina Chandlery chandlery prisoners quay Napoleonic hospital business Hospital Field | Temporal: | start=1986-01-01; end=1986-12-31; | Source: | Sense of place SE | Creator: | J H Rugg | Identifier: | http://www.sopse.org.uk/ixbin/hixclient.... | Language: | en-GB | Format: | image/jpeg | Go to resource |
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