The first early photograph taken (1800s) of the memorial on Dartmoor UK to French Prisoners of war from the Napoleonic wars who died in Dartmoor prison 1809 & 1814. The legend reads 'Dulce et decorum est pro patria mori ("It is sweet and fitting to die for one's country"). Their bones lie in a mass grave nearby

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