A Generous and Merciful Enemy, Volume 38: Life for German Prisoners of War During the American Revolution by Daniel Krebs

A Generous and Merciful Enemy, Volume 38: Life for German Prisoners of War During the American Revolution

Campaigns and Commanders

Daniel Krebs

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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 thou...

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