"The Hessians and Who?"
Author | : Albert R. Schmitt |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 21 |
Release | : 1983 |
Genre | : United States |
ISBN | : |
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Author | : Albert R. Schmitt |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 21 |
Release | : 1983 |
Genre | : United States |
ISBN | : |
Author | : Lowell |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 368 |
Release | : 1884 |
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Author | : Edward Jackson Lowell |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 374 |
Release | : 1884 |
Genre | : United States |
ISBN | : |
Author | : Friederike Baer |
Publisher | : Oxford University Press |
Total Pages | : 529 |
Release | : 2022 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 0190249633 |
Between 1776 and 1783, Britain hired an estimated 30,000 German soldiers to fight in its war against the Americans. Collectively known as Hessians, they actually came from six German territories within the Holy Roman Empire. Over the course of the war, members of the German corps, including women and children, spent extended periods of time in locations as dispersed and varied as Canada in the North to West Florida and Cuba in the South. They shared in every significant British military triumph and defeat. Thousands died of disease, were killed in battle, were captured by the enemy, or deserted. Collectively, they recorded their experiences and observations of the war they fought in, the land they traversed, and the people they encountered in a large body of letters, diaries, and similar private and official records. Friederike Baer presents a study of Britain's war against the American rebels from the perspective of the German soldiers, a people uniquely positioned both in the midst of the war and at its margins. The book offers a ground-breaking reimagining of this watershed event in world history.
Author | : Charles W. Ingrao |
Publisher | : Cambridge University Press |
Total Pages | : 258 |
Release | : 2003-02-13 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 9780521533225 |
In analyzing the origins, course, and effectiveness of domestic policymaking in Hesse-Cassel, Charles Ingrao finds that Frederick was neither as evil as we might think nor as enlightened as we might like to believe.
Author | : Gregory W. Pedlow |
Publisher | : Princeton University Press |
Total Pages | : 319 |
Release | : 2014-07-14 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 140085928X |
Here is a broad and richly documented examination of a little studied social group--the German nobility outside Prussia. Gregory Pedlow considers the nobles of the small but representative state of Hesse-Kassel from the end of the ancien regime to the era of German unification. Although this period has been most often described in terms of the "triumph of the bourgeoisie," the author shows that landholding Hessian nobles were able to preserve much of their political prestige and social and economic power during these years. By demonstrating a mixture of conservatism and flexibility instead of blind reaction, the Hessian nobility maintained its position as a landed elite. The author focuses on four main areas: the noble family, with material showing changes in marriage patterns and family size and the impact of such demographic changes on inheritance practices; noble landownership, with documentation as to how noble landholdings and landed income survived the loss of traditional noble privileges and payments by peasants; noble occupations, with information (including collective biography) showing nobles' education, career choices, and degree of success in obtaining positions in government service; and the nobility's political response to the growing pressure for reform during the nineteenth century. Originally published in 1988. The Princeton Legacy Library uses the latest print-on-demand technology to again make available previously out-of-print books from the distinguished backlist of Princeton University Press. These editions preserve the original texts of these important books while presenting them in durable paperback and hardcover editions. The goal of the Princeton Legacy Library is to vastly increase access to the rich scholarly heritage found in the thousands of books published by Princeton University Press since its founding in 1905.
Author | : |
Publisher | : UM Libraries |
Total Pages | : 810 |
Release | : 1935 |
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ISBN | : |
Includes section: "Some Michigan books."
Author | : Cleveland Public Library |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 1434 |
Release | : 1889 |
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Author | : Lawrence Edward Babits |
Publisher | : Univ of North Carolina Press |
Total Pages | : 322 |
Release | : 2009 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 0807832669 |
Argues that, although the British won the Battle of Guilford Courthouse, the losses they sustained were significant enough to force a withdrawal from the state, and were an important factor in their final defeat at Yorktown, which ended the American Revolution.
Author | : Steven T. Ross |
Publisher | : Psychology Press |
Total Pages | : 234 |
Release | : 1996 |
Genre | : Infantry drill and tactics |
ISBN | : 0714646024 |
Old Regime armies, recruited from a narrow social base and armed with slow-firing, short-range, inaccurate weapons, relied upon harsh discipline and formalized evolutions to attain tactical proficiency. When the French Royal Army collapsed it was replaced with a mass citizen army. This contained elements of the old tactical system but placed a new emphasis on mobility, flexibility, and individual initiative. Napoleon's rivals either imitated aspects of the French system or sought to copy the spirit of the new tactics, engineering social reforms from above and creating their own citizen armies.