Thousands of British and Hessian soldiers flanked the Marylanders. Few Americans would survive. Cornwallis’s men trained a light cannon and musket fire on the advancing Marylanders, who mounted ...

Washington then decided after capturing 900 Hessian soldiers he needed to find a place for the prisoners so he crossed the river a third time: putting the Hessians in Newtown. The website states ...

As the Second Continental Congress approved the Declaration of Independence in Philadelphia, New York City fell to a British fleet of 30,000 soldiers and Hessian mercenaries, German soldiers-for-hire.

But in fact this site was one of two Allentown locations of a POW camp for Hessian soldiers, German mercenaries hired by the British Crown to fight in America. And the prisoners housed at both ...

Here, outnumbered Continental troops defeated the Hessians. Here, revolutionary soldiers (artillery members) held advantageous high ground near Five Points, a position that enhanced victory.

Washington march-ed his troops a dozen miles south towards Trenton where at 8 a.m. in the morning, in a raging snowstorm, the Americans surrounded the Hessians. In two hours, it was all over when ...