#1) Where were the english forced to house a large number of prisoners in the late eighteenth century?
Answer: Sailing Vessels. During the eighteenth century, British justice used a wide variety of measures to punish crime, including fines, the pillory and whipping. Transportation to America was often offered, until 1776, as an alternative to the death penalty, which could be imposed for many offenses including pilfering. When they ran out of prisons in 1776 they used old sailing vessels which came to be called hulks as places of temporary confinement.
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Italy. The Portuguese explores the coastline of South Africa in 1488.The Dutch were the first to colonize it and ruled over it until 1795 when it fell to the British crown. 1803 it fell to the Dutch again and in 1806 it fell to the British.
