Hessians: Mercenaries, Rebels, and the War for British North America
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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-Jager
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.
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