Hessian
... hired, and they came to be called Hessians because 16,992 of the total 30 ... the Battle of Trenton, where about 900 Hessians were captured out of a force of ... service went back to the German royalty. Hessians composed approximately one-third of the British ... in the Battle of Long Island. The Hessians fought in almost every battle, although after ... used as garrison troops. An assortment of Hessians fought in the battles and campaigns ...
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New Jersey during the American Revolution
... of the Delaware River. They took the Hessians stationed in Trenton by surprise; the Hessians were not prepared for an attack during ... of Trenton, the Continental Army crushed the Hessians. The Hessians unsuccessfully attempted to retreat and were completely ...
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Category talk:Terrorist incidents
... was George Washington's attack on sleeping Hessians on Christmas Eve, 1775 (unwelcome foreign troops ... earlier, your definition would suggest that the Hessians whom Washington attacked after crossing the Delaware ... is another important difference, I think: the Hessians would not have been there had they ... take up the earlier historical example, the Hessians were there to fight the insurrection. They ...
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Talk:Hessian
... Also, the article should keep the title "Hessians", since every American connects this word with ... being described as "tribes" around 800-1000AD. Hessians in the context of the eighteenth century ... a tribe, but not their descendants, the Hessians of the eighteenth or twentieth centuries. Except ... but it was probably inevitable that the Hessians would be the first to get an ...
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Intelligence operations in the American Revolutionary War
... translated into German and sent among the Hessians. Benjamin Franklin, who joined the committee to ... posing as a deserter, to contact the Hessians and encourage them to defect. He is ... prince. Between 5,000 and 6,000 Hessians deserted from the British side during the ...
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American Revolutionary War
... mercenaries, popularly known in the colonies as "Hessians" because many of them came from Hesse ... about 22,000 men (including 9,000 "Hessians") to Long Island. In the Battle of ... Christmas night and capturing nearly 1,000 Hessians at the Battle of Trenton on December ...
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John Honeyman
... His story was believed. Even though the Hessians were in a heightened state of alert ... next day the Continental forces surprised the Hessians in a rout, giving the Americans a ...
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IPOPT
... designed to exploit 1st and 2nd derivative (Hessians) information if provided (usually via automatic differentiation ... modeling environments such as AMPL). If no Hessians are provided, IPOPT will approximate them using ...
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History of New Jersey
... State Quarter. The American soldiers surprised the Hessians stationed in Trenton, the majority of whom ... Continental Army completely surrounding and routed the Hessians. The Americans captured nearly 900 Hessian soldiers ...
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List of British Forces in the American Revolutionary War
... numerous German states and known collectively as Hessians. No battle honours were ever awarded to ... Jamaica Rangers Jamaica Volunteers Turks Island Company Hessians Anhalt-Zerbst The Anhalt-Zerbst Regiment (Freikorps ...
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