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What percentage of American prisoners on British prison ships died?

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The percentage of death amounted to 75 percent, as compared with andersonville and Elmira prisons of 33 percent in our civil war. The death rate of french and British prisoners of a war in a German prison camps was not more than 15 percent, and actually less for american prisoners.
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