Hessians
German Soldiers in the American Revolutionary War
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Product details:
- Publisher OUP USA
- Date of Publication 8 July 2022
- ISBN 9780190249632
- Binding Hardback
- No. of pages528 pages
- Size 229x155x45 mm
- Weight 794 g
- Language English
- Illustrations 8 b/w halftones 219
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Short description:
Between 1776 and 1783, Britain hired an estimated 30,000 German soldiers to fight in its war against the Americans. Collectively known as Hessians, the soldiers and accompanying civilians, 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. This study examines how they experienced and described the war they fought in, the land they traversed, and the people they encountered. Based chiefly on their own writings, including a large body of letters and diaries, the book offers a ground-breaking reimaging of Britain's war against American independence.
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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.
Professor Baer has written a lucid and engaging history of the Hessians' experience in a war far from their native lands, using a remarkable number of primary sources in German to do so.
Table of Contents:
Acknowledgments
Introduction
Chapter 1: “A Matter Pregnant with Great, Serious, National Consequences:” Britain's Decision to Hire German Auxiliaries
Chapter 2: “In General a Good Body, & Very Fit for Service:” Recruiting the Auxiliaries
Chapter 3: “Moving Across a Vast Body of Water in Nutshells:” The Voyage to America
Chapter 4: “The Garden of all of North America:” New York and New Jersey, 1776
Chapter 5: “An Unfortunate Affair:” Trenton, 1776
Chapter 6: “The Men are Weary from Toil:” Canada, 1776 and 1777
Chapter 7: “A War Against all Humanity:” Fort Stanwix, Saratoga, Quebec, 1777 to 1783
Chapter 8: “They were Vexed to Find that we Looked like Human Beings:” Captivity, 1776 to 1781
Chapter 9: “Good Night, Peace:” Philadelphia, 1777
Chapter 10: “Conquered Little but Lost Much:” Philadelphia, Rhode Island, New York, 1778 to 1780
Chapter 11: “How German Bones are Scattered around in this War”: The Spanish Borderlands, 1778 to 1782
Chapter 12: “We Joyously went on the Expedition:” Georgia, the Carolinas, Virginia, 1778 to 1782
Chapter 13: “We were once again Onlookers and Idlers:” Captivity after Yorktown, 1781 to 1783
Chapter 14: “I Will Always Call them Rebels:” Evacuation, 1783
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