Hessians: Mercenaries, Rebels, and the War for British North America
Yardley, PA: Westholme, 2015. First edition. Hardcover. First edition, first printing. A fine, fresh, apparently unread copy in equally fine dust jacket. Hardcover. 296 pp. with bibliography, index. In 1775, the Britsih Empire was in crisis, buried in debt from yaesr of combat against the French and facing the growing revolutionary fervor in its North American colonies. To confront the Americans would press their exhausted armed forces to a breaking point so they turned to the armies of the Holy Roman Empire to supress the sedition. By 1776 there would be 18,000 German forces in North America and by the war's end there would be over 30,000. These troops, as a group erroneously called "Hessians",, they actually came from six separate German states. This work presents a view of the American Revolution as seen through the eyes of the German armies commanded to destroy it. Fine / fine. Item #E27149
ISBN: 9781594162244
Price: $32.50