George Washington is an American icon for many important reasons. As the Continental Army’s commander-in-chief and the ...

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So, Washington decided to attack the mercenary Hessian troops, the most feared troops in Europe, at Trenton on Christmas Day. Cornwallis had returned to New York City thinking any danger had passed.

In the Battle of Brandywine, Washington and his army were up against William Howe and his army of 15,500 British Regulars and Hessian troops. On the day of the battle, there was very heavy fog ...

Reed’s Gold Mine is still attracting visitors from far and wide – although this time folks are mining for history. While you’re here you can explore the underground tunnels that were ...

n Several Hessian soldiers who stayed in Pennsylvania became fraktur artists. n Some of the fanciful birds decorating many fraktur could have been taken partially from life, since the now-extinct ...

not far from the spot where her grandfather and his Black soldiers had beaten back a charge of Hessian troops in 1778. She was 91. Two of her daughters, Laura Richards and Maud Howe Elliot ...

The fire broke out at Bob and Paula Hessian’s home, which dates back to the 17th century, in Weston-on-the-Green, Oxfordshire, on the evening of April 5. After escaping, Paula, a former primary school ...

One of his jobs through Advertising Inc. in Hagerstown years ago, he said, was to help repair the City of Hagerstown's original Little Heiskell weathervane that is shaped like a Hessian soldier.