In Poland: Ashes of 8,000 WWII victims found in mass graves after Nazis tried to hide killings Hessians were German mercenaries who fought for Great Britain in the Revolutionary War.

Researchers at a Revolutionary War battlefield in New Jersey have unearthed a mass grave holding the remains of around a dozen Hessian mercenaries who died during the Battle of Red Bank in 1777.

However, their relatively small land army, though professionally trained and augmented with Hessian mercenaries ... early stages of the American Revolutionary War. It occurred on the outskirts ...

have uncovered the remains of 13 Hessian mercenaries who were killed during a bloody Revolutionary War battle. The remains were found in a former trench that was part of the defenses of Fort ...

New York City fell to a British fleet of 30,000 soldiers and Hessian mercenaries, German soldiers-for-hire. A crucial turning point in the war came at the end of 1777, in Saratoga, New York ...

Of the many myths regarding the Revolutionary War, none seem as widespread as the idea that the “Hessians” were “mercenaries.” First off, they weren’t all Hessian. Although most came from the ...