The Hessians And The Other German Auxiliaries Of Great Britain In The Revolutionary War With Maps & Plans

By Edward J. Lowell

An invaluable resource for those interested in the American Revolution in general, or in the Hessians auxiliaries to the British army in particular.

Much of the original source material used by the author in 1884 was lost due to the  bombing of Britain during the Second World War. This circumstance heightens the the importance and exclusivity of Lowell's work.

Contents include:

• I. The Princes
• II. The treaties
• III. The Treaties Before Parliament
• IV. The Soldiers
• V. From Germany To America
• VI. The Battle of Long Island, August 1776
• VII. From the Occupation of New York to the Taking of Fort Washington, September 15 - November 16, 1776
• VIII. Trenton, December 26, 1776
• IX. The Winter of 1777
• X. The Brunswickers in Canada, 1776
• XI. Baroness Riedesel's Journey, 1776 and 1777
• XII. Ticonderoga and Bennington July and August, 1777
• XIII. Stillwater, September 19 and October 7, 1777
• XIV. Saratoga. October 11 to 16, 1777
• XV. The Brunswickers in Captivity
• XVI. Brandywine, Germantown & Redbank, September and October, 1777
• XVII. The British Retreat Across New Jersey, January to July 1778
• XVIII. Newport, November, 1776, To October, 1779
• XIX. The Neighbourhood of New York, 1777 - 1779
• XX. Wiederhold's Voyage - an episode, September 1779
• XXI. Savanna, Charleston, and Pensacola, 1779 - 1781
• XXII. New York in 1780 and 1781
• XXIII. The Southern Campaign of 1781
• XXIV. Conclusion
• Appendix
• Index Browse the Index

Author's PREFACE (a short extract from the book's preface):

"The history of the German auxiliaries, who fought for Great Britain in the Revolutionary War, has not received from American writers the amount of attention which its importance would seem to deserve. Much has been made of the fact that seven thousand French soldiers and nineteen thousand French seamen assisted the United States in the siege of Yorktown, but we have forgotten that a force of between fifteen and twenty thousand Germans served for seven years against us; that more than twenty-nine thousand were brought to America for this purpose; that more than twelve thousand never returned to Germany."

Details:

328 Pages
Index
Hardcover
6" x 9"
Originally published in New York, 1884
This edition published by Global Heritage Press, Milton, 2009
ISBN 1-894378-83-0 (hardcover)