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Originally Posted by issybird
In fact, the navy prison is in Kittery, Maine, where the naval base is and where sailors were sent to prison even before the moldering building that's on the base now. The confusion results because the base is called the Portsmouth Navy Shipyard as it's located in Portsmouth harbor. (TBH, I was being a little facetious and invoking some local color with the Portsmouth reference, which isn't important.) [...]
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Sorry, I wasn't clear. My point was that in 1811* this location, in Kittery, Maine, was Fort Sullivan and I see no reference to Fort Sullivan being used as a prison. I don't know where the prison was back then, but the little I read seems to suggest it was unlikely Fort Sullivan was used as a prison back then because it was part of the Portsmouth defences.
(* My previous said 1810, my maths is as bad as Bacon's
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Originally Posted by Bookpossum
[...] While this is a minor aside in the whole book, such sloppy research has to call into serious question the entire work.
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I definitely agree with the sentiment, I'm just wary as to what I hang it off. My pick is the Christmas tree, although I don't think the tree was sloppy, I think it was a deliberate misrepresentation.