John Gerard was a sixteenth-century Jesuit priest who is remembered as the only man who ever escaped from the Tower of London famous. Gerard placed in the tower to carry out the religious mission during a time when the Catholic Church was under persecution Elizabeth in England. He often suffered interrogations, and although never violated even under torture, he was eventually sentenced to death.
Gerard immediately began planning to escape, and able to communicate with allies on the outside, smuggled through notes written in invisible ink made from lemon juice. After one attempt failed, Gerard able to escape when some foot rowing boat into the Tower ditch and managed to get a rope to him.
Gerard almost fell to his death because his hands were so injured from torture, but he managed to get into the boat and smuggled out of Britain to live the rest of his life in Rome.
9. Dillinger's County Jail Escape
Bandit's legendary 30s era, John Dillinger was involved in a number of often violent escape from prison. In 1933, he and his gang of engineers who dare to escape from a prison in Lima, Ohio. smuggled after they use rifles to shoot dead two guards. But Dillinger escaped. The most famous of all came in 1934, after he was arrested setela robbed a number of famous bank heists.
Dillinger included in the "escape-proof" Lake County Jail, a prison guarded by an army of police and National Guard troops. In what has become something of a legend, Dillinger is said to have made a fake gun from soap and use it to make a way out of jail.
In typical brash style, he then stole the sheriff and make new Ford fled to Illinois.Ironically, this step-by driving a stolen vehicle in the line of countries that found the FBI to follow in his footsteps and eventually cause death.
8. The Libby Prison Escape
Richmond, Virginia's. Libby Prison was one of the most famous prison of the Civil War, but also a site of conflict one of the most daring escape.
In 1864, a group of 15 Union soldiers under the command of Colonel Thomas E.Rose and Major AG Hamilton managed to create a tunnel through the basement prison into a vacant lot. This is not an easy task, such as the basement was dark and full of lice Libby, the basement to the people who are known as "Rat Hell," but after seventeen days of digging, they arrived at the tobacco warehouses nearby.
From here, 109 troops managed to escape to the city of Richmond and create a blurry line at the nearby Union. 48 of those people arrested again, and 2 drowned in a nearby river, but 59 people survived the Federal troops. Their escape from prison is the most successful and most successful break of the Civil War.
7. Casanova's Escape from the Leads
A writer and adventurer Giacomo Casanova Venice is remembered for being a woman a man, but he is also responsible for one of the great escape from prison of all time. In the year 1753, after gaining a reputation for debauchery and adultery, Casanova was arrested and imprisoned in the leads, so named because it is equipped with a tin roof that is designed to encourage the chills and makes it impossible to escape. After smuggling the metal spike into the cell, Casanova and limited apostate priest managed to close the tunnel through the ceiling of their cells.Once through, they dismantle the dish on the roof and into another room through a roof window.
Using a combination of ladder and rope, the duo managed to make it down to the ground floor, and after breaking locks and sneak through the halls of the prison, they escaped with a gondola to the network of rivers. Casanova later wrote about the escape in a popular memoir, and though many have speculated that perhaps the story spiced, evidence from the scene apparently was right.
6. Pascal Payet's Helicopter Escapes
Many prisons in Europe already has a training center on the roof of their helicopters, a French criminal figure Pascal Payet has repeatedly used his advantage. Payet was originally jailed for the murder that occurred during a failed robbery on security vans, and sentenced to thirty years in France's Luynes prison.In 2001, he managed to escape when an accomplice just lifted from the roof of the jail with a hijacked helicopter.
Payet even go back to prison two years later by another helicopter and went to help three other prisoners make their escape, but the four men were arrested again, and Payet was given seven years in prison for his role in the escape from prison.Remarkably, in 2007 Payet lagi2 escape via helicopter, this time from Grasse prison in southeast France. He was lifted from the roof by four feet masked had hijacked a helicopter from the nearest airport by threatening to kill the pilot.
After landing near the Mediterranean Sea, the pilot was released, and Payet and his accomplices vanished without a trace.
5. Dieter Dengler's Prison Camp Escape
Dieter Dengler was a German-American, American Navy pilot known for his successful escape from a prison camp during the Vietnam War in a prison in the forest. In early 1966, Dengler plane was shot down by anti aircraft fire in Laos, and he was arrested and sent to prison camps run by the Pathet Lao, a group of North Vietnamese sympathizers. Dengler has earned a reputation for an uncanny ability to escape from POW camps, ostensibly for military training, and he directly contributed to planning the prisoners had to make her escape. On June 29, 1966, he and six other prisoners escaped. After a spur down three guards, Dengler fled into dense forest.
Finally, he spent 23 days in the forest and resistant to heat, insects, leeches, parasites, and starvation before rescued by American helicopters. Only one of the other prisoners, a contractor Thailand, survivors of this breakout. The others were killed or disappeared in the forest. Dengler will continue to be a successful test pilot in the following years, and until today he is credited as the only American soldier who managed to escape from a prison camp during the Vietnam War.
4. Escape From Alcatraz
In 1962, Frank Morris, Clarence and John Anglin use months carefully planning to escape from prison prototypical. Trio held in the famous prison at Alcatraz Island in San Francisco, which is reserved for the toughest criminals and is considered one of the most difficult prison to escape. People using a series of tools including a drill assembly of vacuum cleaner motors chip away at concrete aging cells and make them into a ventilation hole.
They then make their chimneys down to the beach, where they quickly gather handmade raft and escaped into the San Francisco Bay. Their escape is not realized until the next morning, when the puppets that made him a puppet head of soap, human hair, and toilet paper to look like they slept in their beds. The men were never heard from again, and most evidence suggests that they drowned in the bay, but no body has ever been found.
3. The Maze Prison Escape
One of the most violent prison, the Maze Prison break occurred in 1983, when 35 prisoners escaped after taking control of prison with violence. The Maze is intended for the paramilitary Irish Republican Army combatants and terrorists, and is regarded as one of the most inescapable prison across Europe. But after several months of planning, a group of prisoners led by IRA member Gerry Kelly and Bobby Storey master the entire cellblock by using weapons that have been smuggled into the prison.
After wounding several guards and steal their uniforms, the prisoners hijacked a car and took over a nearby guard post, but when they do not get past the main gate, the men jumped a fence and fled on foot. All told, 35 people escaped from prison, sixteen of whom were arrested again soon after twenty guards were wounded.
2. Billy Hayes' Escape From Turkish Prison
Billy Hayes was an American student who was arrested in 1970 when he tried to smuggle two pounds of hash into the aircraft in Turkey. Once caught, he was sentenced to thirty years in Turkish prisons who have loud systems. Sagmilicar Hayes worked hard in prison for five years, but he eventually transferred to a prison island in the Sea of Marmara, and here he began to seriously plan for escape. The island had no boats, but near the port and there are small fishing boats every time there is a strong storm.
Hayes spent days hiding in the bin of concrete, and when the time is right, he swam to the harbor and steal a small boat. From here, he was able to make its way to Greece, and finally half way round the world before it arrived safely back in the United States.
Hayes later wrote a book about his ordeal called the Midnight Express, which was adapted into a fiction film of the same name.
1. The Great Escape
For a mere planning, risk, and scale, escaped from prison will not be much more complex than the 1944 escape of 76 Allied troops from Stalag Luft III, a German prison during World War II in operation. Running away is the culmination of more than one year of work by about 600 inmates.
The men dug three tunnels (nicknamed "Tom," "Dick," and "Harry") 30 feet below the surface of the prison with plans tunneling through the main fence and came to the surface near the forest. This requires a sophisticated construction process that includes the use of wood blocks for support, a series of lights, and even a pump to ensure the soldiers have to dig enough to be able to breathe. After gathering a collection of civilian clothes and passport, on March 24, 1944 to make their escape.
Unfortunately, the short tunnel also coming from the woods, and emerged from there the guards. 76 people still managed to escape, but 77 were seen and the tunnel was closed. Nazis took special interest in prisoners to escape, and all except three eventually caught. However, thanks to the popularity based on famous movies, as well as the scale and audacity, "Great Escape" remains one of the most famous escape from prison of all time.
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Gerard immediately began planning to escape, and able to communicate with allies on the outside, smuggled through notes written in invisible ink made from lemon juice. After one attempt failed, Gerard able to escape when some foot rowing boat into the Tower ditch and managed to get a rope to him.
Gerard almost fell to his death because his hands were so injured from torture, but he managed to get into the boat and smuggled out of Britain to live the rest of his life in Rome.
9. Dillinger's County Jail Escape
Bandit's legendary 30s era, John Dillinger was involved in a number of often violent escape from prison. In 1933, he and his gang of engineers who dare to escape from a prison in Lima, Ohio. smuggled after they use rifles to shoot dead two guards. But Dillinger escaped. The most famous of all came in 1934, after he was arrested setela robbed a number of famous bank heists.
Dillinger included in the "escape-proof" Lake County Jail, a prison guarded by an army of police and National Guard troops. In what has become something of a legend, Dillinger is said to have made a fake gun from soap and use it to make a way out of jail.
In typical brash style, he then stole the sheriff and make new Ford fled to Illinois.Ironically, this step-by driving a stolen vehicle in the line of countries that found the FBI to follow in his footsteps and eventually cause death.
8. The Libby Prison Escape
Richmond, Virginia's. Libby Prison was one of the most famous prison of the Civil War, but also a site of conflict one of the most daring escape.
In 1864, a group of 15 Union soldiers under the command of Colonel Thomas E.Rose and Major AG Hamilton managed to create a tunnel through the basement prison into a vacant lot. This is not an easy task, such as the basement was dark and full of lice Libby, the basement to the people who are known as "Rat Hell," but after seventeen days of digging, they arrived at the tobacco warehouses nearby.
From here, 109 troops managed to escape to the city of Richmond and create a blurry line at the nearby Union. 48 of those people arrested again, and 2 drowned in a nearby river, but 59 people survived the Federal troops. Their escape from prison is the most successful and most successful break of the Civil War.
7. Casanova's Escape from the Leads
A writer and adventurer Giacomo Casanova Venice is remembered for being a woman a man, but he is also responsible for one of the great escape from prison of all time. In the year 1753, after gaining a reputation for debauchery and adultery, Casanova was arrested and imprisoned in the leads, so named because it is equipped with a tin roof that is designed to encourage the chills and makes it impossible to escape. After smuggling the metal spike into the cell, Casanova and limited apostate priest managed to close the tunnel through the ceiling of their cells.Once through, they dismantle the dish on the roof and into another room through a roof window.
Using a combination of ladder and rope, the duo managed to make it down to the ground floor, and after breaking locks and sneak through the halls of the prison, they escaped with a gondola to the network of rivers. Casanova later wrote about the escape in a popular memoir, and though many have speculated that perhaps the story spiced, evidence from the scene apparently was right.
6. Pascal Payet's Helicopter Escapes
Many prisons in Europe already has a training center on the roof of their helicopters, a French criminal figure Pascal Payet has repeatedly used his advantage. Payet was originally jailed for the murder that occurred during a failed robbery on security vans, and sentenced to thirty years in France's Luynes prison.In 2001, he managed to escape when an accomplice just lifted from the roof of the jail with a hijacked helicopter.
Payet even go back to prison two years later by another helicopter and went to help three other prisoners make their escape, but the four men were arrested again, and Payet was given seven years in prison for his role in the escape from prison.Remarkably, in 2007 Payet lagi2 escape via helicopter, this time from Grasse prison in southeast France. He was lifted from the roof by four feet masked had hijacked a helicopter from the nearest airport by threatening to kill the pilot.
After landing near the Mediterranean Sea, the pilot was released, and Payet and his accomplices vanished without a trace.
5. Dieter Dengler's Prison Camp Escape
Dieter Dengler was a German-American, American Navy pilot known for his successful escape from a prison camp during the Vietnam War in a prison in the forest. In early 1966, Dengler plane was shot down by anti aircraft fire in Laos, and he was arrested and sent to prison camps run by the Pathet Lao, a group of North Vietnamese sympathizers. Dengler has earned a reputation for an uncanny ability to escape from POW camps, ostensibly for military training, and he directly contributed to planning the prisoners had to make her escape. On June 29, 1966, he and six other prisoners escaped. After a spur down three guards, Dengler fled into dense forest.
Finally, he spent 23 days in the forest and resistant to heat, insects, leeches, parasites, and starvation before rescued by American helicopters. Only one of the other prisoners, a contractor Thailand, survivors of this breakout. The others were killed or disappeared in the forest. Dengler will continue to be a successful test pilot in the following years, and until today he is credited as the only American soldier who managed to escape from a prison camp during the Vietnam War.
4. Escape From Alcatraz
In 1962, Frank Morris, Clarence and John Anglin use months carefully planning to escape from prison prototypical. Trio held in the famous prison at Alcatraz Island in San Francisco, which is reserved for the toughest criminals and is considered one of the most difficult prison to escape. People using a series of tools including a drill assembly of vacuum cleaner motors chip away at concrete aging cells and make them into a ventilation hole.
They then make their chimneys down to the beach, where they quickly gather handmade raft and escaped into the San Francisco Bay. Their escape is not realized until the next morning, when the puppets that made him a puppet head of soap, human hair, and toilet paper to look like they slept in their beds. The men were never heard from again, and most evidence suggests that they drowned in the bay, but no body has ever been found.
3. The Maze Prison Escape
One of the most violent prison, the Maze Prison break occurred in 1983, when 35 prisoners escaped after taking control of prison with violence. The Maze is intended for the paramilitary Irish Republican Army combatants and terrorists, and is regarded as one of the most inescapable prison across Europe. But after several months of planning, a group of prisoners led by IRA member Gerry Kelly and Bobby Storey master the entire cellblock by using weapons that have been smuggled into the prison.
After wounding several guards and steal their uniforms, the prisoners hijacked a car and took over a nearby guard post, but when they do not get past the main gate, the men jumped a fence and fled on foot. All told, 35 people escaped from prison, sixteen of whom were arrested again soon after twenty guards were wounded.
2. Billy Hayes' Escape From Turkish Prison
Billy Hayes was an American student who was arrested in 1970 when he tried to smuggle two pounds of hash into the aircraft in Turkey. Once caught, he was sentenced to thirty years in Turkish prisons who have loud systems. Sagmilicar Hayes worked hard in prison for five years, but he eventually transferred to a prison island in the Sea of Marmara, and here he began to seriously plan for escape. The island had no boats, but near the port and there are small fishing boats every time there is a strong storm.
Hayes spent days hiding in the bin of concrete, and when the time is right, he swam to the harbor and steal a small boat. From here, he was able to make its way to Greece, and finally half way round the world before it arrived safely back in the United States.
Hayes later wrote a book about his ordeal called the Midnight Express, which was adapted into a fiction film of the same name.
1. The Great Escape
For a mere planning, risk, and scale, escaped from prison will not be much more complex than the 1944 escape of 76 Allied troops from Stalag Luft III, a German prison during World War II in operation. Running away is the culmination of more than one year of work by about 600 inmates.
The men dug three tunnels (nicknamed "Tom," "Dick," and "Harry") 30 feet below the surface of the prison with plans tunneling through the main fence and came to the surface near the forest. This requires a sophisticated construction process that includes the use of wood blocks for support, a series of lights, and even a pump to ensure the soldiers have to dig enough to be able to breathe. After gathering a collection of civilian clothes and passport, on March 24, 1944 to make their escape.
Unfortunately, the short tunnel also coming from the woods, and emerged from there the guards. 76 people still managed to escape, but 77 were seen and the tunnel was closed. Nazis took special interest in prisoners to escape, and all except three eventually caught. However, thanks to the popularity based on famous movies, as well as the scale and audacity, "Great Escape" remains one of the most famous escape from prison of all time.
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