Hessians
German Soldiers in the American Revolutionary War
Friederike Baer
Table of Contents
Acknowledgments
Introduction
Chapter 1: “A Matter Pregnant with Great, Serious, National Consequences:” Britain's Decision to Hire German Auxiliaries
Chapter 2: “In General a Good Body, & Very Fit for Service:” Recruiting the Auxiliaries
Chapter 3: “Moving Across a Vast Body of Water in Nutshells:” The Voyage to America
Chapter 4: “The Garden of all of North America:” New York and New Jersey, 1776
Chapter 5: “An Unfortunate Affair:” Trenton, 1776
Chapter 6: “The Men are Weary from Toil:” Canada, 1776 and 1777
Chapter 7: “A War Against all Humanity:” Fort Stanwix, Saratoga, Quebec, 1777 to 1783
Chapter 8: “They were Vexed to Find that we Looked like Human Beings:” Captivity, 1776 to 1781
Chapter 9: “Good Night, Peace:” Philadelphia, 1777
Chapter 10: “Conquered Little but Lost Much:” Philadelphia, Rhode Island, New York, 1778 to 1780
Chapter 11: “How German Bones are Scattered around in this War”: The Spanish Borderlands, 1778 to 1782
Chapter 12: “We Joyously went on the Expedition:” Georgia, the Carolinas, Virginia, 1778 to 1782
Chapter 13: “We were once again Onlookers and Idlers:” Captivity after Yorktown, 1781 to 1783
Chapter 14: “I Will Always Call them Rebels:” Evacuation, 1783
Abbreviations
Notes
Bibliography
Index