DRESDEN, Nov. 20.--The soldiers whom the Landgrave of Hesse Cassel and the other German Princes had let out to England for the suppression of the American rebellion were brought together ...
Of the many myths regarding the Revolutionary War, none seem as widespread as the idea that ... Far from being brutal drunken mercenaries, the Hessian soldiers George Washington faced down in December ...
Adams knew the American Revolution had to ... fleet of 30,000 soldiers and Hessian mercenaries, German soldiers-for-hire. A crucial turning point in the war came at the end of 1777, in Saratoga ...