From Wikipedia.
The prisoners were transported across the Atlantic Ocean from Canada aboard the flea-infested HMS Regulus.
It was a wooden 5th rate, 44-gun frigate launched in 1785 and converted to a troopship in 1793. It served in the Egyptian Campaign in 1801 and was broken up in 1816.
On 10 August 1813 the Regulus sailed with the Dover and Melpomere for Quebec with men from Regiment De Meuron on board. These would have been the ones with the fleas.
On 23 August 1813, the Melpmere and Regulus arrived at Halifax with 500 American prisoners aboard. They had sailed from Quebec in 14 days.
These last two dates do not make sense as, if Halifax is not the one in Nova Scotia, Canada, this would mean that both legs of the Atlantic crossing were completed in 13 days. Plus, the prisoner account says the Regulus left on September 1, 1813.
--Brock-Perry
2012 marks the 200th anniversary of America's "Forgotten War," the War of 1812 that took place over three years, 1812 to 1815.
Battle of New Orleans.
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