Ive got hessian soldier heritage, and my dad, grandpa, and uncle were all nicknamed "The Hessian" by their classmates when they learned about them in their US history classes. I'm taking US1 Honors this school year, hopefully i get the nickname too
@hess14n2 жыл бұрын
and yes im from NJ. Between trenton and north delaware. Besides family records, that helps up almost guarantee we're hessian descent
@StephenMBauer2 жыл бұрын
O.K. Hessian! (lol)
@Page-Hendryx Жыл бұрын
I was a member of the Hessians outlaw motorcycle club.
@Godyjail111 ай бұрын
I too have hessian heritage, we actually own one of the muskets that was used by my relative.
@JW026029 ай бұрын
@@Godyjail1 do you know which hessian unit he was with?
@azeclecticdog5 ай бұрын
Enjoyed the talk and will be getting the book. I also have a 5th great grandfather that served in Regiment von Rall. He and his brother were captured and sent to Winchester. His brother went home but he stayed and married the daughter of a local patriot.
@DanielMatthews-ql3wf10 ай бұрын
A great many Hessian soldiers stayed in America after the Revolution because they were a great addition to the colonies.
@Hollylivengood4 ай бұрын
Yes. And quite a few planned on deserting. Ohio was not part of the colonies then, it was a territory, and many of the Germans deserted and went there, because no one could go after then. Isn't Columbus, Ohio supposed to have been originally settled by Hessian deserters?
@bbwng54 Жыл бұрын
Excellent presentation. This talk gave the perspective of the Hessian soldier leaving Europe, coming to America, and surviving the American land and climate.
@p51nion Жыл бұрын
I have the book. Interestingly, Friederike does not mention the fact that George III's sister Augusta was the wife of the Karl, Duke of Braunschweig, from whom he contracted the first body of German troops.
@arthorvonblomberg1624 Жыл бұрын
Excellent presentation and great insight into The Cause and the American experiment. I shall buy the book. Thank you..
@isaiahrarrick54565 ай бұрын
I have an ancestor who was a Hessian soldier. From Hesse-Cassel. Who was captured at the battle of Trenton.
@JW02602Ай бұрын
Maybe he came from my home village Ziegenhain or from the surrounding area. There is a water fortress in Ziegenhain where the Rall regiment was stationed. Greetings from Germany
@mishmashmedley2 күн бұрын
on my dad's fsther's side, we've traced it all the way back to a Hessian Soldier who left and joined the american side of the Revolution. He met a girl and married her and stayed in America thereafter. it's a neat history.
@Tommyknox7774 ай бұрын
I just found out on my fathers side of the family is a Hessian Aux who joined the American side when he was offered land in Pennsylvania. Pretty cool.
@unclrogPitcherАй бұрын
mine also, their land in the Cherry Valley, south of the Mohawk river, NYS
@DanielMatthews-ql3wf10 ай бұрын
Most wealthy Colonials were loyalists they had little to gain from independence. Were as the Revolutionarys were tradesmen and farmers who bore the brunt of the burden of taxation.
@SunbeamGiant2 ай бұрын
I learned a lot thank you!!
@JohnnyRep-u4eАй бұрын
My History Symposium class paper at University was titled: "American Society as Seen by the German Auxiliaries of the British Army in North America: 1775-1783". The majority of our sources had to be primary sources, or contemporaneous secondary sources. I especially enjoyed reading the diary of Johann Ewald, Captain of Jägers. I keep in mind, to this day, a quote of his (of Boileau): "Honor is like an island, Steep and without shore: They who once leave, Can never return."
@brycetonproctor5204 Жыл бұрын
Though only garrisoned there were Hessians in East Florida. They were actual Hessians from Hesse-Cassel under Colonel Friedrich von Porbeck. They were 85 men, including a surgeon from the Knoblauch Regiment. They arrived in April 1781 in St. Augustine due to fears of a Spanish attack.
@davidchunkyonion5 ай бұрын
Great presentation. I learned a lot.
@mewmannamwem6087Ай бұрын
HAHAHh I ADORE the Germans when they speak English Learning German right now so beautiful language and such a beautiful culture Good luck
@hisoverlorduponhigh90 Жыл бұрын
My great, great Grandfather came over from Darmstadt, which I believe is in Hesse. Though he came over in 1832. He landed in Baltimore. He settled in Somerset, county, Pennsylvania. There are much German ancestry there. I have always wondered why he came over
@JW02602Ай бұрын
yes, Darmstadt is in Hessen. Greetings from Germany near Darmstadt
@hisoverlorduponhigh90Ай бұрын
@@JW02602 Hello from Indiana.
@JW02602Ай бұрын
@@hisoverlorduponhigh90 Hello I'm happy. Indiana is a beautiful country. I visited Indiana in the 1980s. Kind regards
@michaelmanning5379 Жыл бұрын
The assertion starting at 8:58 is incorrect. Hesse-Hanau Jagers were on the Fort Stanwix campaign that passed through the Great Lakes.
@nonsibi1087Ай бұрын
I enjoyed this much, especially enriching my own encounters with accounts by German soldiers in America describing Blacks, both enslaved & free. One source, of a German soldier, captured at Saratoga and taken to Massachusetts, noted with horror the treatment of slaves on Long Island and in the Hudson Valley. Entering western Massachusetts, he described small numbers of Blacks, some in family groups, free and in service or bondage. Also memtio0ned was that every American military regiment he encountered contained Black soldiers.
@DanielMatthews-ql3wf10 ай бұрын
Second and third son often joined the army as a way of earning a living and becoming wealthy.
@myradioon5 ай бұрын
Many Hessian soldiers were actually Jews who were forced into conscription for longer terms by German States in exchange for ability to reside/work in them etc.. A list of German Troop War Rosters in New Jersey etc., shows Jewish origin names (Osterman, etc.) amongst Germans/Hessians and not so coincidentally - a lot of deserted Hessian and Prussian soldiers in the Revolutionary War (and names that show up in places in the U.S. that German deserters/prisoners ended up in), have Jewish or known Crypto-Jewish surnames (many hid their identities in the service). Many Jews of course didn't want to go back to Germany and were lower on the totem pole to rescue/exchange/evacuate from the colonies.
@user-ul1cv2ii1c9 ай бұрын
Excellent
@DanielMatthews-ql3wf10 ай бұрын
The first 3 George's were German so recruiting German soldiers as a no brainer. If you are fighting an enemy you ask for help from your friends, and King George's friends were germans.
@MixerRenegade954 ай бұрын
The fist two Georges were German not George III, he was English born and raised.
@ahuels674 ай бұрын
42:07 This sounds exactly like what the Russians said about Germany and the Germans standards of living, homes and everything in them, when they finally got to Germany in WW2. Didnt understand why people who had so much would feel the need to invade an extremely poor country like theirs.
@bartholomus9548 Жыл бұрын
Anyone know much about Bunau regiment? In a database of hessian soldiers during the revolutionary war there was a soldier with my last name in that regiment
@JW02602 Жыл бұрын
I know Garnisons Regiment von Bünau. I Think it is .
@bartholomus9548 Жыл бұрын
@@JW02602 I think I remember seeing that it was a garrison regiment. Do you happen to know where it was garrisoned at?
@JW02602 Жыл бұрын
The Garnisons Regiment von Bürnau stayed in the town of Witzenhausen in Hessen(Germany)
@JW02602 Жыл бұрын
The Regiment von Bürnau got the March order at 9.Mai 1776 to Amerika. I found two different names of Bartholmay.
@bartholomus9548 Жыл бұрын
@@JW02602 interesting my actual last name is Bramer. There was a guy name Johan Adolf Bramer in the bunau regiment. Don't actually know if there is a concrete connection. But I know my 4th great grandfather immigrated to America about 1850 and on a later census the region of birth is labeled as Baden
@DanielMatthews-ql3wf10 ай бұрын
Wealthy people didn't go to the colonies 2nd and 3rd sons went to the colonies to start a business or farm to create Wealth.
@danichicago91404 ай бұрын
Premogeniture was a major driver of expansion inherited from the Normans.
@michaeldivirgilioАй бұрын
Not all Germans were Hessians and none were mercenaries.
@Back4WhatsMines Жыл бұрын
What was the majority of the people and rulers complexion in 🇩🇪 in 1751?
@JW02602Ай бұрын
Most of them had white skin color
@danielgregg25303 ай бұрын
How do you say, "I heard Amerikan girls are easy" in 18th-century German ?
@JW02602Ай бұрын
In what context do you mean that? In the 18th century, things were said differently in Germany. Many greetings from Germany
@ordyhorizonrivieredunord712 Жыл бұрын
Those who remained in Canada were very succesfull in helping kill the savages, especially in Manitoba and quench the 1838 rebellion in Québec. They also captured Tecumseh. 🐺
@RPMZ11 Жыл бұрын
What's the part? The mother country literally bankrupted themselves to protect her English-speaking colonies for over 130 years from the French and her native allies.....who sent hundreds of raiding parties into the American colonies, killing and wiping out dozens of New England settlements. This terror only finally ended with Wolfe's epic campaign and capture of the Citadel at Quebec....finally bringing the end of the French threat to the very livelihoods of her citizens. 16 years later...🔪 🩸 Mother country?....F* them...parle vous?
@ordyhorizonrivieredunord712 Жыл бұрын
You are totally brainwashed by propaganda. ⚜
@RPMZ11 Жыл бұрын
@@ordyhorizonrivieredunord712 Ring your nurse old man. When's the last time you even bothered to read a book...to actually know about where the freak you came from? Ready?... Bring it.....Have I got a story for you.
@kenj.88972 жыл бұрын
The enemy is within now .
@cb68162 жыл бұрын
lol
@cb68162 жыл бұрын
usually
@CulbsDC Жыл бұрын
We have met the enemy. And, yup, it’s us. 😂
@MH-jt3lx Жыл бұрын
The Hassians were right about a few not wanting to pay taxes and were decadent and greedy.
@user-js7ek9oh3p6 ай бұрын
The Hessian Mercenaries were paid to go to the 'New World' and "Conquer" the Colonists.... But, they failed and lost the war, and some stayed and were happily "Conquered".!!
@briancomiskey3792 Жыл бұрын
Hm ok
@DymaxionDon5 ай бұрын
Very weak presentation, more focused on slavery than the Hessian troops. She fails to mention is existing German populations in North America and their impact on the conflict and the Hesssians.
@davemacnicol8404 Жыл бұрын
I could take all of those huns except for maybe ol dirty Sanchez in the middle there.
@davidharner58652 жыл бұрын
A 'small fleet' is a flotilla.
@davidboulden17782 жыл бұрын
1. Huge Lecture Pro - YES. Hessians were Not mercenaries. Thank you for stressing that fact. 2. BIG Lecture Con - Germany didnt unite until 1871. How can there be German soldiers in the revolutionary war? If Germany didn't exist for almost another century.
@p51nion2 жыл бұрын
It's a trivial matter of simplifying the linguistics. The language spoken was Deutsch. Collectively, the lands where this language was spoken were "Deutschland". Since Americans, generally, are way too poorly educated, to grasp this it's simpler to call the inhabitants of these 300+ duchies, landgraves, margraves, principalities, etc., etc., "Germans".
@GLfocus22 жыл бұрын
@@p51nion You are correct.
@GeneWarren Жыл бұрын
There was a German cultural identity, and while actual unification wouldn't come until 1871, there were various earlier attempts, including the German Confederation in 1815. (Still post Revolutionary War, but closer).
@yoshkebenstadapandora1181 Жыл бұрын
I am suspicious that "German Hessians" is in reality Zionist Yiddish speaking Communists hired by Lincoln to come and conquer America for the New World Order. Lincoln was an evil bastard, Rosicrucian freemason. The myth he was a good man is absurd.
@jorgmartinbauer5127 Жыл бұрын
Right, Germans were created not before 1871..
@Whopoopedinmypants5 ай бұрын
Hmm here i was thinking the Hessians were a professional standing army for hire. When in reality they were mostly made up of dissidents and rebel-rousers lol
@DanielMatthews-ql3wf10 ай бұрын
Second and third son often joined the army as a way of earning a living and becoming wealthy.