In the surprise attack, an advance column led by Hessian Jaeger scouts fighting for the British were pinned down by Colonial soldiers who put up a spirited resistance at the Old Stone Arch Bridge ...

At this place which was surrounded by a stockade, 1,200 British soldiers and a few Hessians were held prisoners of war for a period of two years, or until the end of the Revolution. These ...

The limestone walls are 4 feet thick. Some local histories indicate that some of the structure was built by a group of Hessian soldiers — German troops hired by the British — who were detained ...

His hands are chained together and his mouth gagged, and the Hessian soldier refuses to let him go. A quick but bloody fight ensues, and William is freed. The only Hessian soldier left standing ...

In this telling, a free army of American citizen-soldiers triumphed over the hireling corruption of European despotism. Ergo, a sort of American Christmas miracle. Carefully understanding our enemies ...

In 1782, they were tasked with apprehending Hessian deserters, earning a reward of two guineas for each one recovered, whether dead or alive. The soldiers also captured individuals enslaved by the ...

Working off of a skull recovered from a trench just outside Red Bank Battlefield Bank, a New Jersey State Police artist sketched one of the Hessian soldiers who died fighting for Great Britain ...

Two years after the surprising discovery of the remains of 15 Hessians buried at Gloucester County’s Red Bank Battlefield Park, a New Jersey State Police sketch has given a human face to one of the ...

A Hessian soldier remembered walking through the town and seeing bodies everywhere, many of them badly burned, some still alive. Washington was right. Since the Battle of Saratoga in October 1777 ...