So I'm reading and thinking anew about the Second Boer War

[Sitnam]

@BrainGlutton

To be fair, the Cornfeds didn’t starve their POWs because they were trying to get rid of them, they did it because it was all they could do to keep their own troops at the front minimally supplied with food.

Which they didn’t want anyway, it was Sherman and Grant that made the correct call and decided to ditch the Dix-Hill Cartel.

[MrDibble]

@txjim

Tell that to the POWs kept on British prision ships in New York
http://www.thedearsurprise.com/the-wretched-prison-ships/

terrible, horrible things, no doubt, but I’d hesitate to call them “camps”