The Braunschweig : A German-Flagged Ship on Lake Champlain, 1777?
by“The Radeau was magnificently decked out today; from her two masts were flying the English flag and in honor of the nation of Braunschweig,…
“The Radeau was magnificently decked out today; from her two masts were flying the English flag and in honor of the nation of Braunschweig,…
In December 1775, British Colonel William Faucitt and Hessian minister Martin Ernst von Schlieffen drafted a treaty promising the Hessian Landgraf Friedrich II a…
By the start of the American Revolution, the British military was spread thinly across their global empire. Despite having tens of thousands of troops…