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The United States housed, guarded, and feed the thousands of British soldiers who'd surrendered after the battle of Saratoga. What sort of conditions were they kept in? Did the US even have the resources to care for them, considering its own Continental Army often lacked food and clothing?

by /u/RusticBohemian in /r/AskHistorians

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