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While some of the nearly 30,000 German troops sent by Britain to the New World were from the Landgraviate of Hesse-Kassel, soldiers also came from Anhalt-Zerbst, Anspach-Bayreuth, Brunswick-Lüneburg, Hesse-Hanau, and Waldeck. History, however, remembers them collectively as Hessians. Delivery time is estimated using our proprietary method which is based on the buyer's proximity to the item location, the shipping service selected, the seller's shipping history, and other factors. Delivery times may vary, especially during peak periods.

Upon learning of cases of his instructions being violated, von Heister had the guilty parties arrested and forced to ‘run the gauntlet,’ a form of punishment in which the condemned were lashed by all of the soldiers of their own company. While the trade in soldiers was a boon to the state that supplied them, rulers needed to gather sufficient numbers of men for military service. In order to do this, many unscrupulous recruiting practices were commonplace. One unfortunate Hessian, Johann Gottfried Seume, was a student who ran afoul of his superiors at the University of Leipzig. After leaving the college following a disagreement with the faculty he was arrested under false pretences and taken to the Fortress of Ziegenhain as an inductee.

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Arguments were also made that the Hessians enjoyed plunder. While looting did occur during the Revolution, the Hessians were no more guilty of it than other combatants. In fact, soon after arriving in New York in 1776, Lieutenant General Leopold Philip von Heister promptly issued orders instructing his men to respect the private property of the colonials.

They weren’t soldiers of fortune lured by the promise of gold and plunder, and they did not delight in cruel and barbarous treatment. Upon their arrival in the colonies, Hessians were erroneously labeled as mercenaries. In truth, the troops were auxiliaries hired out by their own prince for service in North America.

“Wrongly maligned, the only Hessian monster may be the fictional headless one of Sleepy Hollow.”

Wrongly maligned, the only Hessian monster may be the fictional headless one of Sleepy Hollow. Concerning the treatment of American soldiers, the Hessians were far less brutal than they have been portrayed. It’s true that during the early stages of the war, some German auxiliaries showed no mercy to the rebels, yet much of the violence was the result of the troops being told by British officers that they’d receive no quarter from the colonials. However, as the war progressed, the Hessians discovered that such warnings were not the case and soon great care was taken of any surrendering Americans. With such a poor general opinion of them, it is easy to see how Irving would later conceive his story about a vengeful ghost partaking in nightly wanderings in search of his head. In reality, the Hessians were not the monsters which they have been portrayed.

The Hessians were not villains, as they have been popularly portrayed. Many were unwilling soldiers who profited little from their services on the battlefield. They were not merciless plunderers obsessed with gold, and they were not a cruel and inhumane enemy. In fact, before the war was over many German auxiliaries saw a future for themselves in the New World — hundreds deserted their colours to become some of the first immigrants of the United States.

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Access thousands of instructions from hundreds of brands in the free BILT app. Scan the QR code with a smartphone or tablet to get 3D interactive instructions in the free BILT app. “One thing I must remark in favour of the Hessians, and that is, that our people who have been prisoners generally agree that they received much kinder treatment from them, than from British officers and soldiers,” he wrote.

The soldiers received no extra payment apart from their regular wages, while their rulers received all the profit, which included for some a ‘blood money’ clause that paid a bonus for each dead soldier. On the value of these transactions, Landgrave William VIII of Hesse-Kassel summarized, “These troops are our Peru.” – a reference to Spain’s treasure-rich South American colony. The dominant spirit… that haunts this enchanted region, and seems to be commander in chief of all the powers of the air, is the apparition of a figure on horseback without a head. Such is the general purport of his legendary superstition, which has furnished materials for many a wild story in that region of shadows; and the spectre is known, at all the country firesides by the name of the Headless Horseman of Sleepy Hollow. Simply download BILT from the App Store or Google Play, then search for your product by name. Open your image file to the full size using image processing software.