New Jersey Hessians : truth and lore in the American Revolution / Peter T. Lubrecht.
- Title
- New Jersey Hessians : truth and lore in the American Revolution / Peter T. Lubrecht.
- Published by
- Charleston, SC : The History Press, 2016.
- ©2016
- Author
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- Description
- 160 pages : illustrations, map; 23 cm
- Summary
- During the American Revolution, Great Britain hired thirty thousand German troops to fight rebellious colonists. Five thousand of those troops marched across New Jersey from Princeton and Trenton all the way to the northern tip of Sussex County. Though popular legend would cast them as cold and vicious mercenaries, many were prisoners of war with little choice. Stories of their exploits still circulate in New Jersey, from the headless Hessian of the Morristown Swamp to the mysterious Ramapo Mountain people. Join author Pete Lubrecht as he navigates the myth of Hessian troops in New Jersey to separate fiction from fact.
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- Genre/Form
- History
- Contents
- The Hessian image -- Paid mercenaries? -- Kings, princes and others -- The king, treaties, the parties and Parliament -- German soldiers and their journeys: getting to the colonies -- The legeendary Battle of Trenton: drunk or not? -- The "Convention Army" -- The Hessians and the iron masters in northern New Jersey -- Deserters, legends and the Ramapo mountain people -- Legends and headless Hessians.
- Owning institution
- Harvard Library
- Bibliography (note)
- Includes bibliographical references (pages [143]-154) and index.
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- committed to retain