At 21:46 06/02/06, Rick Stewart wrote:
>the oft repeated (and unfounded) myth that French, Napoleonic
>Convicts were used in the driving of the Tavistock Canal Tunnel under
>Morwell Down.
Rick,
Prisoners of war, not convicts - a common practice - the French used
Spanish PoWs to cut part of the Nantes-Brest Canal at the same period.
Peter
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