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Author : Rodney Atwood
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 314 pages
File Size : 53,9 Mb
Release : 2002-08-15
Category : History
ISBN : 052152637X
A study of the German auxiliaries who fought with the British against the American colonists.
Author : Friederike Baer
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 529 pages
File Size : 45,5 Mb
Release : 2022
Category : History
ISBN : 9780190249632
Between 1776 and 1783, Britain hired an estimated 30,000 German soldiers to fight in its war against the Americans. Collectively known as Hessians, they actually came from six German territories within the Holy Roman Empire. Over the course of the war, members of the German corps, including women and children, spent extended periods of time in locations as dispersed and varied as Canada in the North to West Florida and Cuba in the South. They shared in every significant British military triumph and defeat. Thousands died of disease, were killed in battle, were captured by the enemy, or deserted. Collectively, they recorded their experiences and observations of the war they fought in, the land they traversed, and the people they encountered in a large body of letters, diaries, and similar private and official records. Friederike Baer presents a study of Britain's war against the American rebels from the perspective of the German soldiers, a people uniquely positioned both in the midst of the war and at its margins. The book offers a ground-breaking reimagining of this watershed event in world history.
Author : Peter T. Lubrecht
Publisher : Arcadia Publishing
Page : 160 pages
File Size : 40,7 Mb
Release : 2016-11-21
Category : Photography
ISBN : 9781625857286
During the American Revolution, Great Britain hired thirty thousand German troops to fight rebellious colonists. Five thousand of those troops marched across New Jersey from Princeton and Trenton all the way to the northern tip of Sussex County. Though popular legend would cast them as cold and vicious mercenaries, many were prisoners of war with little choice. Stories of their exploits still circulate in New Jersey, from the headless Hessian of the Morristown Swamp to the mysterious Ramapo Mountain people. Join author Pete Lubrecht as he navigates the myth of Hessian troops in New Jersey to separate fiction from fact.
Author : Lowell
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 368 pages
File Size : 55,5 Mb
Release : 1884
Category : Electronic
ISBN : UBBE:UBBE-00140779
Author : J. G. Rosengarten
Publisher : Good Press
Page : 35 pages
File Size : 49,5 Mb
Release : 2019-12-04
Category : History
ISBN : EAN:4057664564658
This book is a political pamphlet by an American lawyer, historian, and Civil War veteran Joseph George Rosengarten. It touches upon the attack on Prussia in 1866 for seizing and holding Hesse-Cassel, along with Hanover and Brunswick. That campaign drove the Elector of Cassel and the King of Hanover into exile. The author protects Hessians and, as he states, "aims at elevating the claims of the Hessian electoral family in the eyes of their former subjects and of the rest of the world."
Author : Johannes Helmut Merz
Publisher : Hamilton, Ont. : German Canadian Historical Book Pub.
Page : 246 pages
File Size : 44,7 Mb
Release : 1997
Category : History
ISBN : STANFORD:36105021011072
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Author : Brady Crytzer
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 44,9 Mb
Release : 2015
Category : History
ISBN : 1594162247
Three Stories. Two Worlds. One Revolution. Revealing the German Experience in the American Revolution through the Experiences of an Officer, a Baroness, and a Chaplain In 1775 the British Empire was in crisis. While it was buried in debt from years of combat against the French, revolution was stirring in its wealthiest North American colonies. To allow the rebellion to fester would cost the British dearly, but to confront it would press their exhausted armed forces to a breaking point. Faced with a nearly impossible decision, the administrators of the world's largest empire elected to employ the armies of the Holy Roman Empire to suppress the sedition of the American revolutionaries. By 1776 there would be 18,000 German soldiers marching through the wilds of North America, and by war's end there would be over 30,000. To the colonists these forces were "mercenaries," and to the Germans the Americans were "rebels. "While soldiers of fortune fight for mere profit, the soldiers of the Holy Roman Empire went to war in the name of their country, and were paid little for their services, while their respective kings made fortunes off of their blood and sacrifice among the British ranks. Labeled erroneously as "Hessians," the armies of the Holy Roman Empire came from six separate German states, each struggling to retain relevance in a newly enlightened and ever-changing world. In Hessians: Mercenaries, Rebels, and the War for British North America historian Brady J. Crytzer explores the German experience during the American Revolution through the lives of three individuals from vastly different walks of life, all thrust into the maelstrom of North American combat. Here are the stories of a dedicated career soldier, Johann Ewald, captain of a Field-Jäger Corps, who fought from New York to the final battles along the Potomac; Frederika Charlotte Louise von Massow, Baroness von Riedesel, who raced with her young children through the Canadian wilderness to reunite with her long-distant husband; and middle-aged chaplain Philipp Waldeck, who struggled to make sense of it all while accompanying his unit through the exotic yet brutal conditions of the Caribbean and British Florida. Beautifully written, Hessians offers a glimpse into the American Revolution as seen through the eyes of the German armies commanded to destroy it.
Author : Howard Fast
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 193 pages
File Size : 44,7 Mb
Release : 2015-02-24
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9781317456476
"Fast is always a wonderful storyteller, and the story is a good one. ... Entertaining and memorable". -- Library Journal
Author : Tilly Wallace
Publisher : Tilly Wallace
Page : 320 pages
File Size : 47,7 Mb
Release : 2021-08-06
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 8210379456XXX
Fire erases all… even the undead…. One of London’s most recognisable Afflicted has been incinerated in a horrifying way. Whispers spread that a hellhound prowls the streets, snatching the lost souls who have escaped the underworld. Except Wycliff is doing no such thing—could there possibly be another such creature in London? While Hannah and Wycliff investigate the unnatural flames, unrest grows on the streets as someone seeks to reveal the carefully kept secret of how the undead women stave off rot. Someone is agitating for all Afflicted to be eradicated, in a conspiracy that will set the common Englishman against the nobles. To save the Afflicted and stop the uprising, Wycliff must face the void that whispers his name from an inky darkness. While in the afterlife, can he also wrest Hannah free of the curse waiting to stop her heart? Assuming they can get out alive…
Author : Johann Conrad Döhla
Publisher : University of Oklahoma Press
Page : 306 pages
File Size : 54,8 Mb
Release : 1993
Category : History
ISBN : 0806125306
This unique diary, written by one of the thirty thousand Hessian troops whose services were sold to George III to suppress the American Revolution, is the most complete and informative primary account of the Revolution from the common soldier's point of view. Johann Conrad Döhla describes not just military activities but also events leading up to the Revolution, American customs, the cities and regions that he visited, and incidents in other parts of the world that affected the war. He also evaluates the important military commanders, giving readers an insight into how the enlisted men felt about their leaders and opponents. Private Döhla crossed the Atlantic Ocean in 1777 as a private in the Ansbach-Bayreuth contingent of Hessian mercenaries. His American sojourn began in June 1777 in New York. Then, after several months on Staten Island and Manhatten, the Ansbach-Bayreuth regiments traveled to the thriving seaport of Newport, Rhode Island, where they spent more than a year before the British forces evacuated the area. The Ansbach-Bayreuth regiments returned briefly to the New York New Jersey area before they were sent to reinforce the English command in Virginia. Eventually Döhla participated in the battle of Yorktown—of which he provides a vivid description—before enduring two years as a prisoner of war after Cornwallis's surrender. Bruce E. Burgoyne has provided an accurate translation, helpful notes for scholars and general readers, and an introduction on the Ansbach-Bayreuth regiments and the history of Johann Conrad Döhla and his diary. This first edition of the diary in English will delight all who are interested in the American Revolution and the thirteen original colonies.
Author : Edward Jackson Lowell
Publisher : New York : Harper & Bros.
Page : 374 pages
File Size : 44,9 Mb
Release : 1884
Category : Hessian mercenaries
ISBN : HARVARD:32044097906309
Author : Charles W. Ingrao
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 258 pages
File Size : 47,7 Mb
Release : 2003-02-13
Category : History
ISBN : 0521533228
In analyzing the origins, course, and effectiveness of domestic policymaking in Hesse-Cassel, Charles Ingrao finds that Frederick was neither as evil as we might think nor as enlightened as we might like to believe.
Author : Varnum Lansing Collins
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 74 pages
File Size : 44,9 Mb
Release : 1906
Category : New Jersey
ISBN : UCAL:B4517802
Author : Daniel Krebs
Publisher : University of Oklahoma Press
Page : 394 pages
File Size : 48,8 Mb
Release : 2013-04-30
Category : History
ISBN : 9780806189031
Some 37,000 soldiers from six German principalities, collectively remembered as Hessians, entered service as British auxiliaries in the American War of Independence. At times, they constituted a third of the British army in North America, and thousands of them were imprisoned by the Americans. Despite the importance of Germans in the British war effort, historians have largely overlooked these men. Drawing on research in German military records and common soldiers’ letters and diaries, Daniel Krebs places the prisoners on center stage in A Generous and Merciful Enemy, portraying them as individuals rather than simply as numbers in casualty lists. Setting his account in the context of British and European politics and warfare, Krebs explains the motivations of the German states that provided contract soldiers for the British army. We think of the Hessians as mercenaries, but, as he shows, many were conscripts. Some were new recruits; others, veterans. Some wanted to stay in the New World after the war. Krebs further describes how the Germans were made prisoners, either through capture or surrender, and brings to life their experiences in captivity from New England to Havana, Cuba. Krebs discusses prison conditions in detail, addressing both the American approach to war prisoners and the prisoners’ responses to their experience. He assesses American efforts as a “generous and merciful enemy” to use the prisoners as economic, military, and propagandistic assets. In the process, he never loses sight of the impact of imprisonment on the POWs themselves. Adding new dimensions to an important but often neglected topic in military history, Krebs probes the origins of the modern treatment of POWs. An epilogue describes an almost-forgotten 1785 treaty between the United States and Prussia, the first in western legal history to regulate the treatment of prisoners of war.
Author : Richard M. Brauer
Publisher : iUniverse
Page : 328 pages
File Size : 52,8 Mb
Release : 2017-07-27
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9781532024689
Franz Bauer is a farmers son living on family land in Hesse Kassel when he is forced into the Prussian Army. He becomes a soldier, hired out to the British to fight American revolutionaries in the War of 1776. Trained under brutal conditions, Franz learns the art of warfare using the musket and bayonet and is taught discipline by a sadistic senior sergeant. Training completed, Franzs company joins the Hessian Second Division and sails on a troop ship for the American Colonies. He makes unexpected friends with a British Marine private and a Navy Lieutenant. Once arrived at their intended destination, Franz sees his first action in the battle of White Plains, New Jersey Colony, where he experiences the savagery of war. Things eventually turn sour for Franz and friends as they are unjustly accused of crimes and tortured for British political gain. Not only must he face injustice, but Franz must also face capture. There is a decision to be made: does he continue to serve the British who forced him to fight or does he use his well-honed skills to help the revolutionaries find freedom?