German "Mercenaries" with the British in Canada during the American Revolution (1776-83)
by
Jean-Pierre Wilhelmy, Marcel Trudel, Virginia Easley DeMarce
Language: English
Release Date: March 1, 2012
The British Army that fought the American Revolutionaries was in fact an Anglo-German army. The British Crown had doubts about the willingness of English soldiers to fight against other English-speaking people in North America. It also doubted the loyalty of the Canadiens who had only just been taken...