A Generous and Merciful Enemy: Life for German Prisoners of War During the American Revolution

by Daniel Krebs

Book Overview

Some 37,000 soldiers from six German principalities, collectively remembered as Hessians, entered service as British auxiliaries in the American War of Independence. At times, they constituted a third of the British army in North America, and thousands of them were imprisoned by the Americans. Despite the importance of Germans in the British war effort, historians have largely overlooked these men. Drawing on research in German military records and...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0806148446
• ISBN13: 9780806148441
• Release Date: February 2015
• Publisher: University of Oklahoma Press
• Length: 396 Pages
• Weight: 1.30 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.1" x 6.0" x 8.9"