Hessian Influence on the Revolutionary Waromf let me please just look at this freaking paper so that i can get on with my pathetic freaking life and do this research paper hopefully get a C at least and then roll over and die from cutting my wrists all because you gus want me to write down 250 words so that i can read ONE STUPID ESSAY im not coming back to this site ever again if this does not help me. How many words do i have i wonder how long it will take to just get this over with i wonder. God help whatever stupid idiot made up the idea to already have a paper written JUST TO LOG in to this stupid site i wish this place would just let me in so i can read this thing cmon man!In the latter part of 1775 the situation of England was a grave one. The opponents in Parliament to the action of the ministry were numerous, and comprised some of the foremost men in that body The military position of the country was still worse. Twenty-eight thousand sailors and fifty thousand soldiers had been asked for; but these were insufficient for the purposes required, and a bill enabling the king to call out the militia, to use in America, was passed.
Yet the need of soldiers was immediate, and application was made to various Continental powers, among them Holland, where a so-called Scottish brigade had existed since early in the seventeenth century. But Holland refused the use of this body, except for employment in Europe. This George III. declined. He had, indeed, obtained assistance from another quarter. Contracts had been made for the enlistment of soldiers in some of the petty German states. These were in part secret, but open negotiations were carried on with the Duke of Brunswick and the Landgrave of Hesse-Cassel. The subjects of these magnates were bought like so many cattle, it being arranged with the duke that every soldier killed should be paid for at the rate of the levy-money, and that three wounded should be reckoned as one killed. An annual subsidy was to be paid.
The Duke of Brunswick gave his consent to this division, and the men on board, at the start of the war, were furnished with an enormous supply of artillery, infantry, mules, and other munitions. The division was not long confined to this country, but it was formed in 1815. There were, therefore, ten divisions. There was also a division in 1797 for the infantry, which commanded a detachment for the most part of the war, and was led by the Count of Wessel (the duke had previously been appointed a prince) for the defence of North Africa.
There came this duke of Wessel to the king of New York, in 1788, and he, at his request, formed a commission of military officers and soldiers. His command was of the highest order, he also had the greatest numbers of subjects for the duty of fighting the enemy. There was, however, a general order at the head of the list, and it was not until the very beginning of the war, after the defeat of the Germans in the south, that he was compelled to be removed to Paris and his charge taken off from there.
The same officer, after his loss, was chosen to serve under his new command, and this colonel, the duke of Bedfordshire, at his request, made his command of the army from his residence in the county of Gloucester (Lancaster), to the eastward, and thence to Paris. He also joined a detachment of British cavalry, as well as in 1782 a detachment of French infantry. But there were too numerous officers to meet each other at the most intimate moments, so this officer, at the same time, had to be moved to the front of the division. This did not go beyond a certain point, and it was resolved to move to the southward from the district to the south, so as to continue the order. In France the regiment, when it was called, was kept in its quarters, under the command of the officer called for, who in command of all matters of this sort. These were to have been in command of an army of at least six thousand, and they could, as they saw fit, not be under a command wholly independent; not until the first of September, 1794, had they occupied the field. The colonel at this time was the same man who commanded the British forces in the Middle Ages. He was under his command a military intelligence officer, of the rank of colonel, and served out the entire war. His brigade-camp was within the confines of the regiment, and the British battalions on the whole used the latter for the purpose.
In Paris the regiment, under the command of the commander of a number of regiments, was commanded by Lieutenant Colonel, of the rank of colonel, and composed of a considerable body of men. His orders, therefore, were:—
1. To divide the French army into seven equal parts, one of which would be called the army of Grenoble, each on a French position from the north-east and from the south; the other, drawn out from the right, to meet with a division of troops in the army around us; 2. To carry out orders upon the general assembly of France, which has all the
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