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Hessian (4414 bytes)
3: '''Hessians''' are the members of a northern German tribe set...
7: ...es was the [[Battle of Trenton]], where about 900 Hessians were captured out of a force of 1,400. [[George W...
9: ...rcenaries were hired and they came to be called ''Hessians'' because 16,992 of the total 30,067 men came fro...
15: Hessians composed approximately one third of the British f...
19: ...gement was in the [[Battle of Long Island]]. Some Hessians fought in every campaign, although after 1777 the...

Chatten (640 bytes)
1: ...of modern-day northern Hesse. Ancestors of the [[Hessians]]. They succeeded in avoiding Roman subjugation, ...

Baron von Riedesel (2897 bytes)
1: ...ron von Riedesel''' ([[1738]] - [[1800]]) was a [[Hessians|Hessian]] general supporting British forces in th...
24: In [[1776]] the British began to hire [[Hessians|Hessian]] units to fight in the [[American Revolu...

Istvaeones (1517 bytes)
2: ...n of localized [[Teutonic]] tribes ([[Chatti]], [[Hessians]], [[Franks]]) in that region circa 250 CE. There...

Convention Army (1956 bytes)
1: ...h America. A total of about 5,800 British Army, [[Hessians|Hessian]], and Canadian troops were sent on to [[...

Hessian matrix (3385 bytes)
36: ...r positive semidefinite and negative semidefinite Hessians the test is inconclusive. However, more can be sa...

Invasion of Canada (1775) (2845 bytes)
15: ...d by troops under General [[John Burgoyne]] and [[Hessians|Hessian]] mercenaries. The new American commander...

Battle of Saratoga (8376 bytes)
56: ... and Morgan were closing in on either side of the Hessians and their front gave way. The British retreated ...

Battle of Bemis Heights (6394 bytes)
19: ...ron von Riedesel|Baron Friedrich von Riedesel]]'s Hessians would make the main attack to occupy the American...
54: ...born, and Poor began to close on their sides, the Hessians also withdrew to their starting positions.

South Mountain Reservation (2922 bytes)
11: ...he British advanced until they were repelled, the Hessians at the base of the mountain and the British in Mi...

Washington Crossing the Delaware (3410 bytes)
1: ...utionary War]]. In doing so, they surprised the [[Hessians|Hessian]] forces at [[Trenton, New Jersey]] in th...

Samuel John Atlee (3256 bytes)

Battle of Trenton (3412 bytes)
9: ...h two men froze to death on the march), while the Hessians lost 106 dead and wounded with at least 600 captu...

Battle of Valmy (3531 bytes)
3: ...ading force comprised [[Prussia]]ns, Austrians, [[Hessians]] and ''émigrés'' under the [[Charles William Fer...

Fritzlar (4377 bytes)
5: ...be, the [[Chatten]]/[[Catti]] (ancestors of the [[Hessians]]). Boniface, then still known under his origina...

French Revolutionary Wars: Campaigns of 1792 (5615 bytes)

Battle of Freeman's Farm (6203 bytes)
57: Riedesel led his Hessians, with artillery support through a ravine that the...

1776 (6813 bytes)
32: * [[August 15]] - First [[Hessians|Hessian]] troops land on [[Staten Island]] to joi...

Scots Guards (18549 bytes)
42: ...numbered by the Americans, though the British and Hessians did triumph, with both sides sufferering large ca...

Determinant (16938 bytes)

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