“England transported an estimated 50,000 to 120,000 convicts and political prisoners, as well as prisoners of war from Scotland and Ireland, to its overseas col

“England transported an estimated 50,000 to 120,000 convicts and political prisoners, as well as prisoners of war from Scotland and Ireland, to its overseas colonies in the Americas from the 1610s until early in the American Revolution in 1776, when transportation to America was temporarily suspended…” https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Penal_transportation?wprov=sfti1#Great_Britain_and_the_British_Empire https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Penal_transportation?wprov=sft...