DRESDEN, Nov. 20.--The soldiers whom the Landgrave of Hesse Cassel and the other German Princes had let out to England for the suppression of the American rebellion were brought together ...

While John Adams called for a declaration of independence in the Continental Congress, a down-on-his-luck Englishman named Thomas Paine sounded the clarion call for revolution in January 1776 ...

Of the many myths regarding the Revolutionary War, none seem as widespread as the idea that the “Hessians” were “mercenaries ... The situation was very similar for the German-speaking soldiers who ...