The Soldier and the Revolutionary War” opened June 7 on the Army’s 250th birthday. It has artifacts never before displayed ...

For years, archeologists and volunteers have searched for evidence of the exact site of Camp Security, a Revolutionary War prisoner camp near York, Pennsylvania. On Monday, they unearthed key ...

During our Revolutionary war, prisoners were exchanged between the British Government and their rebel colonies, -- yet this fact did not in the least affect the character of the contest, ...

Friends of Camp Security received a welcome boost to its efforts to unearth and preserve the site of a Revolutionary War prisoner of war camp in Springettsbury Township. Earlier this month, the ...

For decades, York County historians knew about the Revolutionary War-era Camp Security — but they weren't exactly sure where it was located. That changed in 2022, when archaeologists uncovered ...

He reminded him that "the custom of war neither required, nor did the interest of an army admit, a daily exchange of prisoners," in consequence of the opportunities that would be thus afforded of ...

The remains of a New Hampshire soldier who died in captivity during the Korean War were returned to American soil on ...

The Defense POW/MIA Accounting Agency announced Wednesday that U.S. Army Pvt. Erwin H. Schopp, a Plymouth native who died as ...

On National Former Prisoner of War Recognition Day, a new marker was placed on a family monument at Union Cemetery to honor Elizabeth (Dunkin) Porter – a woman whose sacrifice helped shape ...

The rules protecting prisoners of war (POWs) are specific and were first detailed in the 1929 Geneva Convention. They were refined in the Third Geneva Convention of 1949, following the lessons of the ...