Burlington 1776: The Forgotten Opportunity
byThe 1776 campaign season had ended badly for General George Washington and the Continental Army as the dejected Patriots struggled through foul weather over…
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This Week on Dispatches: James M. Deitch on Johann Rall at the Battle of Trenton
byOn this week’s Dispatches, host Brady Crytzer interviews JAR contributor James M. Deitch on whether Hessian commander Johann Rall’s failure at Trenton was due to…
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Johann Gottlieb Rall: Tactical Negligence or Personal Negligence at Trenton?
by“When a man chooses a calling, he must do everything that can be done in that calling so that he can never suffer reproach…
Hessians: German Soldiers in the American Revolutionary War
byBOOK REVIEW: Hessians: German Soldiers in the American Revolutionary War by Friederike Baer (New York: Oxford University Press, 2022) Writing a detailed, authoritative account of the…
This Week on Dispatches: Todd W. Braisted on Point/Counterpoint between Israel Putnam and William Tryon
byOn this week’s Dispatches, host Brady Crytzer interviews author and JAR contributor Todd W. Braisted on Israel Putnam and William Tryon trying to influence Hessian…
Point/Counterpoint, 1777 Style: Dueling Proclamations from Israel Putnam and William Tryon
byAs the year 1777 drew to a close, the region around the city of New York had been under British control for a year….
The 25th Grievance of the Declaration of Independence
byWhen Thomas Jefferson wrote the twenty-seven grievances against the King listed in the Declaration of Independence, he did so with the intention of encapsulating…
St. Paul’s Church, New York: A Revolutionary War Site
byNestled amid factories, automotive shops and diners in an industrial section of southern New York, just a short walk from the Bronx boundary, sits…
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The Engagement at Woodlane: Precursor to the Battle of Iron Works Hill, a Key to the American Victory at Trenton
byTheir feet were leaving noticeable imprints in the grassy field. It was another two hundred yards to the hedgerow, and then a steep climb…
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The Whitall Family and the Battle of Red Bank
byJames W. Whitall (1717-1808) was a prominent Quaker businessman and farmer in the southern region of New Jersey. In 1739 he married Ann Cooper…
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The Court Martial of Major Henry Lee
byAside from Gen. Anthony Wayne’s successful assault upon a British garrison at Stony Point in July, military activity in the first eight months of…
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Delaware’s Colonel John Haslet (1727–1777)
byBorn in Straw Dungiven, County Londonderry, Ireland,[1] thirty-year-old John Haslet was the young, widowed minister of Ballykelly Presbyterian Church. Arriving in America in 1757, he…
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A Visit to Old Fort Mercer on the Delaware
byA motorist travelling northbound through New Jersey along Interstate 295, which tracks the east bank of the Delaware River from the Delaware Memorial Bridge,…
The Hessians Who Escaped Washington’s Trap at Trenton
byThe year 1776 opened with the overall promises of Thomas Paine’s Common Sense pamphlet seemingly coming to fruition; however, the ensuing months were anything…
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The Hessians: Journal of the Johannes Schwalm Historical Association
byIn recent decades, scholarship on the American Revolution has grown to include those largely excluded from the main narrative. Women, Native Americans, those of…
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Hessians: Mercenaries, Rebels, and the War for British North America
byBook Review: Hessians: Mercenaries, Rebels, and the War for British North America by Brady J. Crytzer (Westholme Publishing, 2015). Students of the American Revolution…
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The Hessian Jägerkorps in New York and Pennsylvania, 1776-1777
byIn December 1775, British Colonel William Faucitt and Hessian minister Martin Ernst von Schlieffen drafted a treaty promising the Hessian Landgraf Friedrich II a…
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“The Sale of the Hessians” and the Franklin Legend
bySince 1874 a growing assumption, indeed an assumption expanding to the status of “fact,” has arisen that a document known as “The Sale of…
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8 Fast Facts About Hessians
byBy the start of the American Revolution, the British military was spread thinly across their global empire. Despite having tens of thousands of troops…