<P> Continental Army prisoners of war from Cherry Valley were held by Loyalists at Fort Niagara near Niagara Falls, New York and at Fort Chambly near Montreal . </P> <Table> <Tr> <Td> </Td> <Td> This section needs expansion . You can help by adding to it . (April 2008) </Td> </Tr> </Table> <Tr> <Td> </Td> <Td> This section needs expansion . You can help by adding to it . (April 2008) </Td> </Tr> <P> During the time of the American Revolutionary War, George Washington and his Continental Army put the laws of war into practice regarding prisoners of war, unlike their opponents who did not . The Americans believed that all captives should be taken prisoner . On September 14, 1775, Washington, commander of the Northern Expeditionary Force, while at camp in Cambridge, Massachusetts, wrote to Colonel Benedict Arnold that: "Should any American soldier be so base and infamous as to injure any (prisoner)... I do most earnestly enjoin you to bring him to such severe and exemplary punishment as the enormity of the crime may require ." After winning the Battle of Trenton on the morning of December 26, 1776, Washington found himself left with hundreds of Hessian troops who had surrendered to the Americans . Washington ordered his troops to take the prisoners in and "treat them with humanity," which they did . "Let them have no reason to complain of our copying the brutal example of the British army in their treatment of our unfortunate brethren who have fallen into their hands," Washington said . The official stance in the capturing of enemy troops was one of mercy . </P>

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