Revolutionary Moment
The Hessians
5/18/2026 | 30sVideo has Closed Captions
The British hired German mercenaries to fight with them in the Revolutionary War.
The British hired German mercenaries to fight with them in the Revolutionary War.
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Revolutionary Moment is a local public television program presented by Delta Public Media
Revolutionary Moment
The Hessians
5/18/2026 | 30sVideo has Closed Captions
The British hired German mercenaries to fight with them in the Revolutionary War.
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The Hessians were German soldiers, aka foreign mercenaries, primarily from the German state of Hesse Cassel.
Hired by the British to fight during the American Revolutionary War.
The term Hessians is often used to refer to all German troops who fought on the British side.
Roughly 30,000 German troops, including Hessians, fought alongside the British.
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