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  • Most Illustrious Hereditary Prince
    Bruce E. Burgoyne / Bruce EBurgoyne
    Letters (1776-1783) from twenty-six men, most of them officers of the Hesse-Hanau Hereditary Prince Regiment, have been translated from the German into English by Mr. Burgoyne. The prince of the title was the Count of Hanau. He ruled over Hesse-Hanau on the Rhine River and sent a total of 2,257 men to support the English war effort in North America. (He would later become Wilhe...
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    27,80 €

  • Canada During the American Revolutionary War
    Bruce E. Burgoyne / Bruce EBurgoyne / Friedrich Julius Von Papet
    This author enjoys a unique and pre-eminent position in the study of Hessian records of the American Revolution, having translated literally thousands of pages of the journals and writings of Döhla, Prechtel, Waldeck, Pausch, Von Feilitsch, Bartholomai, Piel, Wiederhold, Rueffer, 'J.R.' Steuernagel, and many other Hessian soldiers. To this impressive list he now adds the writin...
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    31,57 €

  • The Trenton Commanders
    Bruce E. Burgoyne / Bruce EBurgoyne
    In the closing days of 1776, the future looked gloomy for the American colonists; their Revolution was in dire straits. The remnants of the American army in Pennsylvania, led by General George Washington, were fading away. Across the Delaware River, the English forces had gone into winter quarters and were awaiting the start of a final campaign in the spring of the coming year,...
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    7,36 €

  • These Were the Hessians
    Bruce E. Burgoyne / Bruce EBurgoyne
    The ultimate outcome of the American Revolutionary War was foreordained when England turned to the European continent to obtain soldiers. Rulers of six small German states (Hesse-Cassel, Hesse-Hanau, Brunswick, Waldeck, Ansbach-Bayreuth and Anhalt-Zerbst) signed treaties with England whereby troop units were placed in English service. These Hessians represented one-third of all...
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    44,58 €

  • The Hesse-Cassel Mirbach Regiment in the American Revolution
    August Schmidt / Bruce E. Burgoyne / Bruce EBurgoyne
    This book comprises two accounts of the Mirbach Regiment and its involvement in the Revolutionary War. Firstly, there is the regimental journal, kept by quartermaster August Schmidt, which spans the period from the unit’s departure from regimental headquarters in Melsungen on March 1, 1776 to its return home May 30th 1784 at the close of the war. Secondly there is the journal k...
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    18,99 €

  • Hesse-Hanau Order Books, A Diary and Roster
    Bruce E. Burgoyne / Bruce EBurgoyne
    Mr. Burgoyne continues to add to our knowledge of the Germans’ participation in the Revolutionary War. Although these auxiliary soldiers came from many different areas of Germany, they were generally lumped together under the term 'Hessians.' They fough ...
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    30,26 €

  • Waldeck Soldiers of the American Revolutionary War
    Bruce E. Burgoyne
    Of all the Hessian units employed by England during the American Revolutionary War, none traveled more widely than the 3rd English-Waldeck Regiment. This contingent of men served in the New York-New Jersey area, West Florida, and the Mississippi River are ...
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    23,95 €

  • Eighteenth Century America
    Bruce E. Burgoyne
    A largely unexploited source of information on life in colonial America is to be found in the diaries of those German soldiers who came to America as the so-called Hessians during the American Revolutionary War. Of all the diaries, that of Philipp Waldec ...
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    21,86 €

  • Enemy Views
    Bruce E. Burgoyne
    Foreword by John Gardner. Presents parts of the diaries, letters and regimental records from 34 individual sources from five of the six German states which rented their armies to Great Britain. The reader experiences the war in chronological order, from t ...
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    48,46 €

  • Georg Pausch's Journal and Reports of the Campaign in America, as Translated from the German Manuscript in the Lidgerwood Collection in the Morristown Historical Park Archives, Morristown, N.J.
    Bruce E. Burgoyne
    When England was faced with the necessity of trying to suppress the revolt in the American Colonies in 1775, there were not enough men in the kingdom to fulfill all the English military commitments. Therefore, England turned to the continent of Europe and ...
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    19,96 €

  • Defeat, Disaster, and Dedication
    Bruce E. Burgoyne / Bruce EBurgoyne
    The two diaries contained in this volume were written by Lieutenant Jakob Piel of the Hesse-Cassel von Lossberg Regiment and Captain Andreas Wiederhold of the Hesse-Cassel von Knyphausen Regiment. Their careers in America paralleled each other for a part ...
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    20,04 €

  • A Hessian Officer's Diary of the American Revolution Translated From An Anonymous Ansbach-Bayreuth Diary and The Prechtel Diary
    Bruce E. Burgoyne
    This volume contains translations of two versions of the Revolutionary War diary of Johann Ernst Prechtel: the first from the 'original' document, and the second from an author-revised later version. Both are included here 'to provide an easily comparable ...
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    28,66 €

  • Diaries of Two Ansbach Jaegers
    Bruce E. Burgoyne
    One of the types of German auxiliaries, known as Hessians, employed by England during the Revolutionary War was the jaeger, or as the term translates into English, hunter. 'Dressed in their hunter-green uniforms [these soldiers], who were trained in fores ...
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    18,81 €