The Hessians and other Auxiliaries of the Revolution

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The Hessians
And the Other German Auxiliaries of
Great Britain In the
Revolutionary War
By Edward J. Lowell, 1884
370 pages, indexed, searchable
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Bonus -
Letters of Brunswick and Hessian Officers
During the American Revolution
By August Hund, 1891,
274 pages, Illustrated, Indexed, Searchable
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Bonus -
Journal of Du Roi the Elder
By Charlotte Epping, 1911,
204 pages, Illustrated, Indexed, Searchable
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Bonus -
The Battle of Red Bank
Aug. 22-23, 1777
Resulting in the Defeat of the Hessians
By Wallace McGeorge
15 pages, Searchable
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The British purchased the services of 30,000 German Soldiers for 0,000, all of which went into
the royal coffers of the German princes. These troops came from Hesse Cassel, Hesse Hanau,
Brunswick, Anspach, Bayreuth, Anhalt Zerbst and Waldeck.
Total sent was 30,067 from 1776 to 1782; 12,562 did not return... 7,754 dead and
4,808 remained in America.
All are generally referred to as "Hessians" because of their large numbers. Also, their General
Knypyhausen was commander of the entire German force which contributed to the common reference to "Hessian Soldiers".
" PREFACE - The history of the German auxiliaries, who fought for Great Britain in the Revolutionary War, has not
received from American writers the amount of attention which its importance would seem to deserve. Much has
been made of the fact that seven thousand French soldiers and nineteen thousand French seamen assisted
the United States in the siege of Yorktown, but we have forgotten that a force of between fifteen and twenty
thousand Germans served for seven years against us ; that more than twenty-nine thousand were brought to
America for this purpose ; that more than twelve thousand never returned to Germany.
I know of no American historian but Bancroft, who has made any thorough study of this subject in the
original authorities, and the general nature
of his work does not call on him, and, indeed, would hardly permit him, to
write the history of the German troops in detail.
In preparing the following book, I cannot claim to have used nearly all the very voluminous stores contained in the
libraries and archives of Germany. I have, however, found original German accounts of every important engagement,
and of almost every skirmish of the Revolutionary War, from the year 1776 to the end, except of some of those battles
which occurred in the Carolinas and Georgia, and in which few, if any, Germans were engaged. Some of these accounts,
I believe, had never yet fallen under the eye of an American writer.
In Germany the treaties for the letting of soldiers to Great Britain, and the history of those
soldiers have received more attention than in America."
CONTENTS.
I. The Princes i
II. The Treaties 14
III. The Treaties Before Parliament 27
IV. The Soldiers 37
V. From Germany to America 46
VI. The Battle of Long Island, August, 1776 .... 58
VII. From the Occupation of New York to the Taking
OF Fort Washington, September 15TH to November i6th, 1776 70
VIII. Trenton, December 26th, 1776 85
IX. The Winter of 1777 100
X. The Brunswickers in Canada, 1776 117
XI. Baroness Riedesel's Journey, 1776 and 1777 . . . 126
XII. Ticonderoga and Bennington, July and August, 1777 - 136
XIII. Stillwater, September 19TH and October 7th, 1777 151
XIV. Saratoga, October iith to i6th, 1777 162
XV. The Brunswickers in Captivity 180
XVI. Brandywine, Germantown, and Redbank, September AND October,
1777 197
XVII. The British Retreat across New Jersey, January
to July, 1778 209
XVIII. Newport, November, 1776, to October, 1779. . . . 215
XIX. The Neighborhood of New York, 1777 to 1779 . . 221
XX. Wiederhold's Voyage — an Episode — September, 1779 230
XXI. Savannah, Charleston, and Pensacola, 1778 to 1781 239
XXII. New York in 1780 and 1781 255
XXIII. The Southern Campaign of i 781 265
XXIV. Conclusion 282
Appendix 293
Index 303
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