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The Independent UK
The Independent UK
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Tom Wilkinson

Historian to follow Scottish prisoners-of-war’ ‘death march’ route

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An academic is retracing the steps of thousands of 17th Century Scottish prisoners-of-war who were put through a 100-mile death march.

Hundreds of captives taken at the Battle of Dunbar died at Durham Cathedral, where they were held in horrific, unsanitary conditions by Oliver Cromwell’s victorious army.

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