Hessians

After being summoned by Captain Richardson () to hand-deliver a message to a group of Hessians camped at Spotswood, the young man sets off immediately.

George Washington crossed the Delaware River and surprised the Hessians.

As news spread of the Allies’ triumph, the Prussians, Hessians and Hanoverian contingents, long delayed by their respective rulers, eagerly joined the pursuit of the broken French and Bavarian forces.

A stalemate persisted, with regular exchanges of cannon fire, until September 21, when 100 Hessians, returning from the Mohawk Valley to support Burgoyne, arrived on the scene to provide reinforcement to the besieged fort.

However, Wilkes' Hessian brigade, lying nearby in the marshy grass at the water's edge, stood firm and repulsed the Gens d'Armes with steady fire, enabling the English and Hessians to re-order and launch another attack.

In John Trumbull 's painting Capture of the Hessians at the Battle of Trenton, Monroe can be seen lying wounded at left center of the painting.

Rowe's own regiment lost their colours, but they were soon retrieved by the Hessians.

The Hanoverians, Hessians and Danes, despite earlier undertakings, found, or invented, pressing reasons for withholding their support.

The Landgraviate of Hesse-Kassel contributed more soldiers than any other state, and German soldiers became known as " Hessians " to the Americans.

When the Hessians sounded the alarm, they tried to get several of their artillery pieces in action to pour grapeshot into the Americans marching down towards the homes they had commandeered.