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Indentured to liberty : peasant life and the Hessian military state, 1688 - 1815

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  • "When Washington crossed the Delaware on Christmas Eve in 1778, he attacked German farm boys hired out to the British monarchy as "mercenaries." Throughout the eighteenth century the British rented such armies from the Landgraves of Hesse-Cassel under the auspices of the so-called subsidy treaties. Forced to defend the liberties of English elites, Hessian conscripts were themselves subjected to a harsh authoritarian rule. In this engaging book, Peter K."

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  • "Indentured to liberty : peasant life and the Hessian military state, 1688 - 1815"
  • "Indentured to liberty : peasant life and the Hessian military state, : 1688-1815"
  • "Indentured to liberty : peasant life and the Hessian military state, 1688-1815"