In the years of American Independence, the hostilities between the British Crown and the colonists already settled in the territory of present-day North America also took place at sea, with all the tricks of naval combat -for example, the sudden change of flag, moments before the first volley- and, at the same time, with the nobility of those times when enemy castaways were picked up, fed and cured by those who had just sunk the ship that was carrying them.
The present diary narrates the facts that happened -more than in naval battles- in the years of captivity of a Yankee sailor in the English prison of Dartmoor, after being captured in the Gulf of Mexico and waiting for more than a year in the Barbados Islands -at the time, English territory- to be transported to the British Isles. The customs of that time (daily life, slaves, food, prisons, etc.), both in the Caribbean and in England (Princetown, 1925), are the most interesting aspect of this story, written with the difficult ease of a classic in the History of Literature.