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Fort Ticonderoga on Hessians

 

Why did Britain hire German soldiers to fight the American Revolution? Discover the true story of the "Hessians," the German subsidy troops who crossed the Atlantic to help suppress the rebellion in our latest video!

In 1775, Britain faced a growing colonial rebellion with an army far smaller than those of France, Austria, or Russia. Raising and training new recruits would take years, so the British turned to a long-standing practice: hiring foreign auxiliaries. After Catherine the Great refused to send Russian troops, King George III looked to the smaller states of the Holy Roman Empire.

Americans came to call all of these soldiers "Hessians," but troops came from Hessen-Kassel, Hessen-Hanau, Anspach-Bayreuth, Waldeck, Anhalt-Zerbst, and Braunschweig. They were not mercenaries. Britain contracted with their rulers, paying subsidies for portions of their armies, which is why they were known in the period as "subsidy troops." Follow the Brunswick corps, whose treaty of January 9, 1776, was the first of its kind.

Learn how thousands of Brunswickers were organized, crossed more than 4,000 miles to reinforce Governor Guy Carleton in Canada, and settled into winter quarters in the Richelieu and St. Lawrence valleys during the 1776 campaign on Lake Champlain.

Watch our latest video to learn more about the growing international repercussions of the American Revolution!

Introducing: Hessian Reenacting!

 

Battle of the Plains of Abraham

 

Today in 1759. Battle of the Plains of Abraham - Wikipedia

Now we have a French Revwar group in the UK it is time to get a Hessian group going.

 Reenactors portraying soldiers from the Regiment Prinz Friedrich at Fort Ticonderoga 's "Brown's Raid" living history program.

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Today in 1755

The Battle of Lake George was fought on 8 September 1755, in the north of the Province of New York.^[2] It was part of a campaign by the British to expel the French from North America, in the French and Indian War.^[3] General Jean-Armand, and Baron Dieskau led a variety of regulars and irregulars. William Johnson led an army consisting solely of colonial irregulars and Haudenosaunee (Iroquois) warriors under Hendrick Theyanoguin. The battle consisted of three separate phases and ended in victory for the British and their allies.^[4] Afterward, Johnson built Fort William Henry in order to consolidate his gains.