Revolutionary Speaker Series: Hessians Soldiers in the American Revolution

The Brandywine Battlefield Park is a 52 acre park with a Visitor's Center, which houses a museum of Revolutionary War artifacts, a museum shop, and an orientation theater; two historic houses - one acting at General George Washington's Headquarters and the other home to a prominent Quaker farmer; and a blacksmith's shop.The Visitor's Center is climate controlled.  WIFI access is available.  Exhibits, an orientation video, tours of the historic homes, special programs, and a museum store are the highlights.

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Join Friederike Baer, Assoc. Professor of History at PSU Abington, as she talks about Hessian soldiers who fought in the American Revolution

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<p>Between 1776 and 1783, Britain hired an estimated 30,000 German soldiers to fight in its war against the Americans. Collectively known as Hessians, they actually came from six German territories within the Holy Roman Empire. Over the course of the war, members of the German corps, including women and children, spent extended periods of time in locations as dispersed and varied as Canada in the North to West Florida and Cuba in the South. They shared in every significant British military triumph and defeat. Thousands died of disease, were killed in battle, were captured by the enemy, or deserted.</p>

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Revolutionary Speaker Series: Hessians Soldiers in the American Revolution

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