The Hessians and the Other German Auxiliaries of Great Britain in the Revolutionary WarHarper & Bros., 1884 - 328 Seiten |
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Ameri Americans Anspach Anspach-Bayreuth artillery attack Bancroft Baroness Riedesel battle Bennington boats Brandywine bridge brigade British army brought Burgoyne Burgoyne's campaign cannon Captain Cassel Charleston chasseurs Cloth Colonel command Cornwallis deserted detachment Donop Duke of Brunswick Eelking Eelking's Hülfstruppen enemy England English Ewald Ewald's Belehrungen expedition fire fleet force Fort Washington four Frau von Riedesel French garrison German Grenadier Battalion guard Hanau Heister Hesse-Hanau Hessian Hudson infantry Island Jäger Corps Jersey journal killed and wounded King Knyphausen land Landgrave of Hesse-Cassel letter Lieutenant Lieutenant-colonel Lord Lord Cornwallis Lossberg Margrave miles militia morning Newport night October orders party Paulus Hook princes prisoners Rall Rall's rebels received recruits redoubt retreat Riedesel River road Saratoga says Schlözer's Briefwechsel sent ships side Sir Henry Clinton Sir William skirmish soldiers surrender taken Tarleton thousand three hundred took Tories town treaty Trenton troops Waldeck Washington Wiederhold York Yorktown
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Seite 87 - They may, in conjunction with my present force and that under General Lee, enable us to attempt a stroke upon the forces of the enemy, who lie a good deal scattered, and to all appearance in a state of security. A' lucky blow in this quarter would be fatal to them, and would most certainly rouse the spirits of the people, which are quite sunk by our late misfortunes.
Seite 30 - Londonderry brought forward his motion on our foreign relations, and moved that an humble address be presented to his Majesty, praying that he would be graciously pleased to...
Seite 163 - General Burgoyne's army being exceedingly reduced by repeated defeats, by desertion, sickness, &c., their provisions exhausted; their military horses, tents, and baggage, taken or destroyed; their retreat cut off, and their camp invested, they can only be allowed to surrender prisoners of war.
Seite 205 - It is finishing a noble career 'early ; I die the victim of my ambition and of the avarice of my sovereign.
Seite 93 - The out-guards made but small opposition, though, for their numbers, they behaved very well, keeping up a constant retreating fire from behind houses. We presently saw their main body formed ; but, from their motions, they seemed undetermined how to act.
Seite 56 - This biscuit was so hard that they sometimes broke it up with a cannon-ball, and the story ran that it had been taken from the French in the Seven Years' War and lain in Portsmouth ever since. The English had kept it twenty years or so, and were now feeding 'the Germans with it, that these might, if it were God's will, destroy Rochambeau and Lafayette.
Seite 86 - One thing I must remark in favor of the Hessians, and that is, that our people who have been prisoners generally agree that they received much kinder treatment from them than from the British officers and soldiers.