During the Second World War, the Mooragh Camp at Ramsey was one of several internment facilities on the Isle of Man. Douglas boarding houses along the promenade were also requisitioned for internment purposes. Once again, the island was being defined by someone else's needs — a convenient location to hold people the British mainland did not want. The pattern was familiar: Mann had been used by other people for other people's purposes for as long as it had existed in other people's awareness. The internment camps of two world wars defined Mann as a holding pen, just as the Revestment had defined it as a revenue line.