Tag: Jagers

Posted on March 9, 2023March 8, 2023

“Earned By Veteran Intrepidity”: Spencer’s Ordinary, June 26, 1781

Captain Johann Ewald had much to thank the Almighty for.[1] A heroic stand on the picket line before Norfolk, Virginia, parried an American thrust and covered the captain and his men with glory, but it had nearly cost him his leg and left him bed bound and bereft of the command of his beloved Jӓgers. […]

by Conor Robison

Posted on May 14, 2015August 28, 2016

The Hessian Jägerkorps in New York and Pennsylvania, 1776-1777

In December 1775, British Colonel William Faucitt and Hessian minister Martin Ernst von Schlieffen drafted a treaty promising the Hessian Landgraf Friedrich II a large sum of money in return for soldiers.[1] The British had spent the fall of 1775 offering subsidies to German states of the Holy Roman Empire they were allied with in […]

by David Ross