The Hessians

by Rodney Atwood

Book Overview

The Hessians are infamous in American history for their role as part of the British forces sent to crush the colonists' rebellion in 1776. Yet these German auxiliaries, or mercenaries were only one instance of a frequent military practice, approved by international jurists of the time and used by the British in all their eighteenth-century wars. This study (dealing with one of the six contingents known inaccurately as the Hessians) is the first to...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 052152637X
• ISBN13: 9780521526371
• Release Date: August 2002
• Publisher: Cambridge University Press
• Length: 308 Pages
• Weight: 1.00 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.8" x 6.0" x 9.0"