Hessian (soldier) facts for kids

Quick facts for kids Hessians
Two Hessian soldiers of the Leibregiment
Country	Hesse-Cassel Hesse-Hanau
Part of	Attached to but not incorporated into the British Army
Engagements	American Revolutionary War • Battle of Long Island • Landing at Kip's Bay • Battle of Edgar's Lane • Battle of White Plains • Battle of Fort Washington • Battle of Fort Lee • Battle of Iron Works Hill • Battle of Trenton • Forage War • Battle of Bound Brook • Battle of Short Hills • Siege of Fort Ticonderoga • Battle of Hubbardton • Siege of Fort Stanwix • Battle of Bennington • Battle of Staten Island • Battle of Cooch's Bridge • Battle of Brandywine • Battle of the Clouds • Battles of Saratoga • Battle of Germantown • Battle of Red Bank • Battle of Gloucester • Battle of White Marsh • Battle of Barren Hill • Battle of Monmouth • Great Siege of Gibraltar • Capture of Fort Bute • Battle of Baton Rouge • Siege of Charleston • Battle of Connecticut Farms • Battle of Springfield • Battle of Mobile • Siege of Pensacola • Battle of Spencer's Ordinary • Battle of Green Spring • Battle of Groton Heights • Siege of Yorktown • Battle of Johnstown • Raid on Lunenburg
Commanders
Notable commanders	Wilhelm von Knyphausen Johann Rall  †

The Hessians were German soldiers who were hired to fight for the British Empire.

Some Princes in Germany agreed to give England some men to fight in return for money, and they were made rich by their soldier's services to the crown.

Images for kids

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  This memorial erected at Jordan and Gordon Streets in Allentown, Pennsylvania marks the location where Hessian prisoners of war were held by General George Washington and the Continental Army during the American Revolutionary War

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  Hatchment of Oberst Franz Carl Erdmann Freiherr von Seitz, St. Paul's Church (Halifax), Nova Scotia, d. 1782

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  The Capture of the Hessians at Trenton, December 26, 1776, by John Trumbull, shows General Washington ordering medical assistance for mortally wounded Hessian colonel Johann Rall

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  Wilhelm von Knyphausen, commander of the Hessians in the American Revolutionary War

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  Johann Holland, Garrison Regiment von Stein (later von Seitz; von Purbeck), Little Dutch (Deutsch) Church, Halifax, Nova Scotia

See also

In Spanish: Hessiano (soldado) para niños