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Soft cover. Zustand: New. No Jacket. Pamphlet. In the closing days of December 1776, the American colonists must have feared that their bold declaration of independence would soon be only an insignificant, minor event, in the history of English rule in the New World. The remnants of the American army in Pennsylvania, led by General George Washington, were fading away and in a few clays would apparently cease to exist. Across the Delaware River, the English forces had gone into winter quarters and were awaiting the start of a final campaign in the spring of the coming year, when they would crush any remaining American force. Chance had placed a brigade of Hessian hirelings in the most exposed English outpost at Trenton. The commander was a Hessian colonel of demonstrated courage and fighting ability, Johann Gottlieb Rall, hero of White Plains and Fort Washington, battles which had driven the Americans out of the New York area. However, on 26 December the course of history was to take a sharp and sudden change when the two commanders clashed. Washington's army of some 6,000 men crossed the Delaware River in a blinding winter storm and attacked Rall's brigade of about 1,500 men, consisting of three regiments, Lossberg, Knyphausen, and Rall, plus a few jaegers and some English light horse troops. In the fighting which followed the Americans had only a handful of casualties, including James Monroe, later to be the fifth president of the United States. Hessian casualties amounted to about 900 men killed, wounded, and captured, including Colonel Rall, wounded during the battle, who died the same day. The usual description of Washington, which all American school children are taught, is that he was a tall, dominating figure, who overawed everyone with his presence. Likewise, the description of Colonel Rall, as taught in our schools, is that he was a drunken, overbearing, brute of a man, who considered the American soldiers unfit to be called such. It is true that he had a poor opinion of the Americans as fighting men, but in the following pages the reader will find an indication that neither Washington nor Rall were quite what we were taught in school.(1996), 2012, 5.5" x 8.5", paper, 16 pp. [B0661].…

paperback. Zustand: Near Fine. DETAILS: PAPERBACK, attractive copy, tiny ding to a few page corners, near fine. BURGOYNE, BRUCE E., ed. . The diary of Lieutenant von Bardeleben and other von Donop Regiment documents. Translated by Bruce E. Burgoyne. Westminster, MD: Heritage Books, 1998, 198pp., . CONTENTS: An anonymous Hessian diary, problably the diary of Lieutenant Johann Heinrich von Bardeleben of the Hesse-Cassel von Donop Regiment - Church book of Georg Christoph Coester, chaplain of the Hesse-Cassel von Donop Regiment - Journal of the Hesse-Cassel von Donop Regiment maintained by regimental quartermaster Johann Georg Zinn. 9780788410543 ISBN 0788410547. …

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Paperback. Zustand: As New. Softcover. As new. Handwritten note from the author laid in. Pre-eminent scholar of Hessian American Revolution/early federal period material here offers the diary of Captain Ludwig Alberti of the 5th Waldeck Battalion written during the voyage from North Holland to the Cape of Good Hope and his unit's stay there.…

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Paperback. Zustand: Fine. Illustrated glossy softcovers. Fine, fresh, unsued example, Signed by the author on the title page. xvii+ 156 pp. with index. "Church books" of the German chaplains who accompanied the Hessian troops serving in America during the Revolutionary War, 1776-1783. Six soldiers from each company were allowed to take their families with them on campaign and these books consisted of birth, marriage, death, penance, and confirmation records.…

Softcover. Zustand: Fine. Staple bound in glossy illustrated stiff wrappers. Fine, fresh, as new copy. 16 pp. Monograph of first hand accounts culled from diaries and letters of Hessians involved in the Dec. 26 short but enormously important morning battle that occurred when the occupying forces were surprised to see the daylight break over the American Continental Army's 6000 man contingent. George Washington and his forces had made the legendary crossing of an ice-choked Delaware River on Christmas night and surprised Hessian commander Col. Johann Gottlieb Rall. The American suffered only a handful of casualties (including a near-fatal shoulder wound suffered by future President James Monroe) while Hessian casualties numbered about 900, including Col. Rall, who was killed.…

Soft cover. Zustand: New. Letters (1776-1783) from 26 men, most of them officers of the Hesse-Hanau Hereditary Prince Regiment, have been translated from the German into English by Mr. Burgoyne. The prince of the title was the Count of Hanau. He ruled over Hesse-Hanau on the Rhine 2003, 51/2x81/2, paper, index, 196 pp. …

Soft cover. Zustand: New. No Jacket. These "church books" consist of birth, marriage, death, baptism, penance and confirmation records. They were recorded by the German chaplains who accompanied the Hessian troops serving in America during the Revolutionary War, 1776-1783. Six soldiers from each company were allowed to take their families with them on the campaign, which explains the large number of baptisms in the records. Marriages performed in violation were not recognized in Germany, however, those who did so were allowed to remarry after returning to Germany. These valuable records are quite detailed and contain a wealth of family history. Included are the Church Book of Hesse-Cassel Chaplain Georg C. Coester, Chaplain Braunsdorf's Anhalt-Zerbst Church Book, and the Ansbach-Bayreuth Church Book compiled by Chaplain Stroelein. Bruce E. Burgoyne, (2003, 2007), 5.5" x 8.5", paper, index, 180 pp.…

Soft cover. Zustand: New. No Jacket. The Diary of Lieutenant von Bardeleben and Other von Donop Regiment - Bruce E. Burgoyne. Contains the wartime diaries of Lieutenant Johann Heinrich von Bardeleben, the company Church Book of the von Donop Regiment compiled by Chaplain Georg Christoph Coester, and the regimental journal of Quartermaster Johann Georg Zinn. Johann von Bardeleben's diary entries often include very specific information about von Bardeleben's fellow officers and hint at a general dissatisfaction with the role of the Hesse-Cassel divisions in an Englishmen's war. Georg Christoph Coester's Church Book details marriages, births, confirmations and even penance. Regimental Quartermaster Zinn's journal contributes detailed listings of officers, vessels, camp sites and other particulars of the campaigns around New York City, Trenton and Philadelphia. Mr. Burgoyne is a recipient of the Benjamin Franklin Lifetime Achievement Award from the American Revolution Roundtable of Philadelphia. (1998), 2007, 5½x8½, paper, index, 218 pp. [B1054].…

Soft cover. Zustand: New. No Jacket. Mr. Burgoyne continues to add to our knowledge of the Germans' participation in the Revolutionary War. Although these auxiliary soldiers came from many different areas of Germany, they were generally lumped together under the term 'Hessians.' They fought as auxiliary soldiers on the side of the British and against the American colonists who were attempting to gain independence from the Mother Country. Four items are contained in this new collection. An anonymous diary that is believed to have been written by Paul Wilhelm Schefer, Auditor of the Hesse-Hanau Hereditary Prince Regiment. The Order Book of General von Gall, Colonel and Commandant of the Hesse-Hanau troops serving in Canada. The Order Book of the Hesse-Hanau (Hereditary Prince) Regiment. Rosters of the Hesse-Hanau Infantry Regiment and the Jaeger Corps prepared by Colonel Charles Rainsford, English Commissary Officer in Holland. Together these items provide additional views on the vagaries and difficulties of military life in a distant land in the eighteenth century, and identify hundreds of names of soldiers and officers. Mr. Burgoyne is a recipient of the Benjamin Franklin Lifetime Achievement Award from the American Revolution Roundtable of Philadelphia. Index, 305 pp. [B2461-H].…

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Soft cover. Zustand: New. No Jacket. Bruce E. Burgoyne. Index, 616 pp. Any serious and thorough study of the American Revolution would be incomplete without the record of the soldiers who came from several German states to serve on the English side, the so-called 'Hessians'. Because England had not enough men in 1775 to meet all of her military commitments, she followed a common practice of the time and engaged organized troop units from six German states: Ansbach-Bayreuth, Anhalt-Zerbst, Brunswick, Hesse-Cassel, Hesse-Hanau and Waldeck. These 'Hessians' numbered about 30,000 and made up probably one-third of the soldiers sent to America. They played a major role in every significant military action during the war. Researchers with an interest in these German soldiers will already be acquainted with Mr. Burgoyne's work. If you are just now learning of it, here are two things to get your attention: 1) according to John Gardner of Delaware State University, Bruce Burgoyne has personally translated as many Hessian sources as have been translated and published before by anyone, and 2) as its physical size suggests, this book is a step beyond Mr. Burgoyne's previous works, which were typically translations from single diaries. This book presents in translation parts of the whole diaries, letters and regimental records from 34 individual sources from five of the six German states which rented their armies to Great Britain (only Brunswick is unrepresented). The reader experiences the war in chronological order, from the Hessian departure from Germany, through the harrowing Atlantic crossing, through as many as eight years of military campaigns (covering engagements from Canada to the Caribbean), and back to Germany. You will see each event from many viewpoints, the hardships of sleeping outside in the rain or snow, or watching comrades die from heat during a march, or seeing men drowned at sea, will become very real. You will learn a great deal about misfortunes at sea, as the geographical nature of the Revolutionary War forced the army to depend heavily on the fleet for supplies and for transport. These land soldiers tasted far more seafaring than any European war would have required of them, and storms at sea were quite frequent and never trivial (cannons, masts and humans were carried off regularly, and ships were often in collisions with one another). You will learn of captures, capitulations, prisoner exchanges and terms of captivity, which would look quite unusual today. You will see the German view of the English, the American Rebels, the Indians and the war effort. The Hessian diarists had a high level of literacy and provide many details of and insights into life in this pivotal period. Details of people's names are readily accessible through the book's everyname index. The information in this book is factual, detailed, often new (not previously published) and told with the immediacy of first-hand experience. If you could have sent an eyewitness news crew to the American Revolution, the result would have been a lot like this. [B0563].…

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Zustand: Sehr gut. Zustand: Sehr gut | Sprache: Englisch | Produktart: Bücher | Six German states furnished troops to Britain to serve in America during the Revolutionary War. Those states were Hesse-Cassel, Hesse-Hanau, Brunswick, Waldeck, Ansbach-Bayreuth, and Anhalt-Zerbst. By far the largest contingent was provided by Hesse-Casse.…