Forgotten Patriots by Edwin G. Burrows reveals that far more Americans died as prisoners than in battle during the Revolutionary War. Of the 25,000 captured, at least 17,500 perished in brutal, overcrowded prisons and ships in British‑occupied New York City, the Crown’s main military base. Long overlooked, this history reframes New York as the Revolution’s deadliest front and challenges how Americans remember the cost of independence.

This story is now brought to life in The Occupied City: New York and the American Revolution, a major immersive exhibition at the Museum of the City of New York, which explores the city’s central role in the war and the human toll of its occupation.

• 384 Pages.
• 0.01 ounces.
• Reading age: 13 years and up.
• 6.25 x 1.25 x 9.75 inches.