Video Tag: Auxiliaries

Hessians: German Soldiers in the American Revolutionary War

Friederike Baer
May 17, 2022

Between 1776 and 1783, Great Britain hired an estimated thirty thousand German soldiers to fight in its war against the American rebels. Collectively known as Hessians, the soldiers and accompanying civilians, including hundreds of women and children, spent extended periods of time in locations as dispersed and varied as Canada, West Florida and Cuba. They […]