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	Hessians
		King George was from Hanover, an area in Germany, and called in a favor to his homeland, asking for soldiers willing to fight in the New World.
		The Hessians numbered almost 30,000, and they fought mostly in the Northern Campaign.
		They are most famous, however, for being surprised and defeated at Trenton by American forces under General George Washington, whose army had just crossed the Delaware River in the dead of night on Dec. 25, 1776.
	www.socialstudiesforkids.com /wwww/us/hessiansdef.htm (123 words)

	Old Barracks Museum: Barracks History: Turning Point Battles: 1st Battle of Trenton
		Sullivan marched in on the lower part of the town on the Hessian's flank.
		James Monroe, later to be president of the United States, was wounded in an heroic attack on the Hessian guns.
		The Hessians tried retreating off to the American left but were surrounded.
	www.barracks.org /barracks/battle1.html (586 words)

	Hessian Soldiers
		All are generally referred to as "Hessians" because of their large numbers.
		Also, their General Knypyhausen was commander of the entire German force which contributed to the common reference to "Hessian Soldiers".
		JSHA is a nonprofit organization dedicated to researching those German auxiliary troops (generically called Hessian) who remained in America after the Revolutionary War, became loyal citizens, made cultural contributions and were the progenitors of any thousands of Americans living today.
	members.tripod.com /~Silvie/Hessian.html (347 words)

	Hessians - Glasgledius (Site not responding. Last check: )
		Hessians is a collective name for German mercenaries who fought on the British side in the American War of Independence.
		Hessians got their name from the fact that 16.992 of the total 29.875 men came from Hessen-Kassel[?].
		Hessians composed maybe 1/3 of the British forces in the conflict.
	www.glasglow.com /E2/he/Hessians.html (334 words)

	Definition of Hessians from dictionary.net
		Of or relating to Hesse, in Germany, or to the Hessians.
		Hessian boots, or Hessians, boot of a kind worn in England, in the early part of the nineteenth century, tasseled in front.
		Hessian fly (Zo["o]l.), a small dipterous fly or midge (Cecidomyia destructor).
	www.dictionary.net /hessians (113 words)

	The Indepundit (Site not responding. Last check: )
		But like those Hessians, today's volunteers sign up for some mighty dangerous work largely for wages and benefits - a compensation package that may not always be commensurate with the dangers in store, as current recruiting problems testify.
		The Hessians were ruthless German mercenaries hired by King George III to fight the rebellious colonies, and were infamous for their wanton and indiscriminate cruelty.
		Indeed, the word "Hessian" has often been used to describe soldiers-for-hire who rape, pillage, and lay waste to the countryside -- regardless of their national origin.
	www.indepundit.com /archive2/2005/07/hessians.html (504 words)

	American Revolution, Hessians, German Soldiers
		The Hessians were converted to Christianity after the fall of the Roman Empire, mainly through the efforts of St. Boniface.
		The Hessian Conrad of the Franks was elected as Conrad I in 911, but on his death the crown passed out of Frankish hands to Herny of Saxony.
		Thousands of Hessians deserted the idle British ranks, many changed their Germanic names to avoid reprisals, and melded into populations of the countryside to take up new lives.
	www.laughtergenealogy.com /bin/histprof/misc/hessians.html (496 words)

	Infanterie Regiment von Donop Hessian FAQ Page
		One must understand that the Hessian soldier received no extra pay for his duty, and remained loyal to, and was still considered a soldier of the German state of his origin.
		If one looks at the situation the Hessian were in and calls them mercenaries, one may become very uncomfortable with the way that all "volunteer" armies are paid for today, or how the various peace-keeping contingents employed by the United Nations are also paid for.
		The common perception of a Hessian soldier is one of the Hessian Grenadier with his tall brass mitre cap.
	www.vondonop.org /hessianfaq.html (2504 words)

	Propaganda01
		In fact, it was reported by the Loyalist in the region that a group of Hessians prepared effigies of generals Washington, Lee, Putnam and Witherspoon.
		The propaganda campaign to entice the Hessians to desert from the British army failed primarily because they had no family or national ties to the Patriots.
		Unlike the German emigrants who had come to these shores prior to the outbreak of the Revolution, and who had families here to defend, the Hessian mercenaries' only ties were to the British Army which was paying them to serve.
	www.motherbedford.com /Propaganda01.htm (327 words)

	LIBERTY! . The Hessians \| PBS
		As a consequence, during the war and ever since, all of the Germans fighting with the British were lumped together and called Hessians.
		The Hessians' services were bought and paid for by George III, who simply did not have enough soldiers in his own army to supply the needs of his commanders in America.
		For many Hessians, the possibilities in this rich, new land with its growing German population was a great enticement to desertion—a fact that Americans worked hard to promote with promises of free land for Hessians willing to switch sides.
	www.pbs.org /ktca/liberty/popup_hessians.html (234 words)

	24. Hessians
		This section relates to the computation of analytic hessians which are available for open and closed shell SCF, except ROHF and for closed shell DFT.
		Analytic hessians are not currently available for SCF or DFT calculations relativistic all-electron methodologies or for charge fitting with DFT.
		This keyword is identical to THRESH in the SCF, Section 10.7, and the CONVERGENCE gradient in the DFT, Section 11.7.
	www.emsl.pnl.gov /docs/nwchem/doc/user/node26.html (242 words)

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		After the fighting, British and Hessian wounded and sick took shelter in the half-completed church, later known as St. Paul's Church, Eastchester.
		Many Hessians died in the Church, mostly from disease, and were buried in a mass grave in the Eastchester cemetery.
		The spot where they were buried was a sandpit from which sand had been taken to make mortar for the construction of the church.
	www.nps.gov /sapa/cemetery/hessians.html (227 words)

	Hessian.org: heavy metal music and culture (Site not responding. Last check: )
		Hessian Studies is the academic study of Hessians, Bangers, Metallians, Metalheads, death rockers, and other adherents to the genres of metal and grindcore.
		The Hessian Studies Department seeks to establish a presence of Hessians on campuses and in society as well as to create a comfortable environment in academia that suits the specific needs of Hessians pursuing higher education.
		That there be Hessians hired to faculty and staff positions at colleges and universities, and that all hair length rules and any form of drug policy regarding Hessians be abrogated, as Hessians have a religious need for some currently-regulated substances.
	www.hessian.org /metal/culture (284 words)

	The Battle of Trenton
		The Hessians, who had borne the brunt of the assault on Fort Washington in NY, showing courage and discipline, had the honor of being to the front in Trenton and Burlington.
		The Hessians are constantly disrupted by fast moving American units, charging in and moving to cover all routes in or out of the town.
		The third regiment of Hessians, on the south end of town, trying to get across the Creek to head towards Bordentown are delayed by trying to bring their cannon through a boggy area and suddenly find themselves surrounded and surrender as well.
	www.doublegv.com /ggv/battles/Trenton.html (2492 words)

	Hessians with many real components
		The hessian of a plane curve f(x,y) of degree d is the polynomial
		If d is at least 4 then the set of hessian curves is a proper subvariety of the set of all plane curves of degree 2d-4, so there is some content to this question.
		We investigated hessians of quartic and quintic polynomials, experimentally.
	www.math.tamu.edu /~sottile/stories/Hessian/index.html (543 words)

	Amazon.com: The Hessians: Books: Rodney Atwood (Site not responding. Last check: )
		The Hessians are infamous in American history for their role as part of the British forces sent to crush the colonists’ rebellion in 1776.
		This study (dealing with one of the six contingents known inaccurately as the Hessians) is the first to make extensive use of manuscript sources in Germany, Britain and America to put the Hessians in their historical context and to examine a number of the myths about them.
		The encounter of the Americans with the Hessian troops from a disciplined paternalistic society organized for war, with special thoroughness, was not merely the meeting of two military systems, but also of two ways of life, and is thus worthy of study in an age of conflict.
	www.amazon.com /Hessians-Rodney-Atwood/dp/052152637X (1076 words)

	Hesse Gremany, Hessen Germany, History, Genealogy, Family History, Hessen Deutschland. Hessians.
		On the whole, however, the Hessian Church was in an excellent condition at the outbreak of the Reformation in Germany.
		Philip’s imprisonment by Charles V scarcely exercised a perceptible influence on the progress of the Reformation, and in 1551 Sebastian von Heusenstamm, Archbishop of Mainz, was compelled to resign finally all claims to jurisdiction in Hesse.
		His son, William IX (1785-1821), in accordance with the Peace of Lunéville, received rich compensation (mostly in ecclesiastical territory) for Rheinfels, ceded to the French, and was granted in 1803 the title of elector.
	www.usgennet.org /de/topic/ddgn/hessen/hessen-catholic.html (2445 words)

	Eyewitness Account of the Battle of Trenton
		As it was the Hessians under Count [Carl von] Donop and Colonel [Johann] Rall arrived in that village in season to fire a few shots at the last boat.
		He bears the Hessians no malice, but says they have been sold by their Grand Duke to King George and sent to America, when if they could have their own way they would be peaceably living in their own country.
		He has pounced upon the Hessians like an eagle upon a hen and is safe once more on this side of the river.
	www.state.nj.us /state/history/trenton.html (1635 words)

	DAKOTA: Responses Commands
		selection indicates that Hessian information is needed and will be estimated with finite differences using either first-order differences of gradients (for analytic gradients) or second-order differences of function values (for non-analytic gradients).
		Referring to dakota.input.spec, it is evident from the enclosing brackets that the set identifier and response descriptors are optional.
		The simulation must return the Hessian data in the DAKOTA format (enclosed in double brackets; see DAKOTA File Data Formats in Users Manual) for the case of file transfer of data.
	www.cs.sandia.gov /DAKOTA/licensing/release/html-ref/RespCommands.html (3029 words)

	History: 1776—Washington's War - Newsweek National News - MSNBC.com
		Not long after, a dozen Hessians on guard on the Pennington Road beyond town were fired on in the dark by an American patrol, which had quickly withdrawn.
		The Hessians on guard had trouble at first making out who they were and how many there were.
		As fast as the Hessians began forming up, Henry Knox's cannon opened fire with deadly effect and in minutes—"in the twinkling of an eye," Knox said—cleared the streets.
	www.msnbc.msn.com /id/7856560/wid/6448213/site/newsweek/page/5 (798 words)

	The Battle of Trenton
		He first wanted to attack the Hessians at Bordentown, but the local militia in that area was too weak to offer support.
		The southern crossings were to prevent the escape of the Hessians and to prevent Von Donop from supporting Trenton.
		Many of the Hessians were able to escape to the south across Assumpink Creek, where Ewing's troops were supposed to have been located.
	www.myrevolutionarywar.com /battles/761226.htm (1451 words)

	The Hessians
		The attraction of free land for deserters and the vigorous German population already in America led thousands of these mercenaries to switch allegiance and stay in America.
		Hessians who remained in the British employ were hated and feared by the Americans, and the fact that George III had chosen to employ foreign mercenaries stirred up much anger among the colonists.
		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.
	www.u-s-history.com /pages/h668.html (354 words)

	Flit
		The fact is the historical Hessians who served in the American War of Independence on the British side were not exactly mercenaries, at least not as we would understand the term today.
		The Hessians were, in a sense, indentured or coerced soldiers, practically the exact opposite of mercenary contracting as it's traditionally understood.
		The Hessians themselves were hard fighters, although their reputation for cruelty on the battlefield seems overblown...
	www.snappingturtle.net /flit/archives/2005_07_29.html (1466 words)

	Urban Dictionary: hessians
		hessians isn't defined yet, but these are pretty close:
		Hessian is a loosely weaved, strong fiber material similar to burlap.Used mainly for carpet backing.
		I wanted to go to the Dying Fetus show but quickly decided against it because I knew that there would be too many Hessians there.
	www.urbandictionary.com /define.php?term=hessians (245 words)

	Hessian.org: death metal, black metal, heavy metal and metal culture as philosophy
		The time has come for fans of heavy metal music and culture, called colloquially "Hessians," to assert their own position in this hierarchy and have a political and social defense of their way of life.
		Heavy metal music has remained proudly independent of popular music styles and has become increasingly complex, brave in its topics and imagery, and defiant in its assertion of its own values system.
		The Hessian Studies Society aims to study Hessian culture, promote it and defend it in the battleground of ideas that is modern society.
	www.hessian.org (143 words)

	NJ.com: Special Projects
		He was left behind as the Hessians fell back toward Haddonfield, and is slowly bleeding to death.
		Captured Hessian officers say von Donop begged his British superiors for the privilege of allowing his grenadiers to make the attack to wipe away the embarassment of the surprise defeat at Trenton.
		A double line of chevaux-de-frise obstructed the Delaware at Fort Billings, but once the obstructions were dismantled by the British, the river was open for them to move on Forts Mercer and Mifflin.
	www.nj.com /specialprojects/index.ssf?/specialprojects/revwar/rev10.html (864 words)

	Las Vegas Mercury: Bad motor scooter
		Besides, it's not very often that all the Hessians find time to get together, and pretty much everyone is here--Dog, the Hessians' president; Link, the former president and elder statesman; and One Eye, the club treasurer, to name a few.
		Back then, the Hessians were the baddest of the bad seeds, the apples that fell far from the tree and cracked a few skulls on the way down.
		According to Link, the turning point was a Hessians Halloween party in 1975, when 48 Gents, Hessians and friends were arrested during a Metro raid.
	www.lasvegasmercury.com /2004/MERC-May-27-Thu-2004/23962648.html (2043 words)

	The Hessians - Appendix
		Fourteen of the fifteen regiments had given up one company of grenadiers each, and these fourteen companies, with two more from the Landgrave's bodyguard, were formed into four battalions of grenadiers, with a strength of 524 officers and men for each battalion.
		Thus the Hessian force (Cassel) was composed Of 15 regiments of infantry, 4 battalions of grenadiers, 1 corps of chasseurs, and 3 companies of artillery.
		A Hessian regiment was usually named after its "Chef." This "Chef" was sometimes the colonel of the regiment, but more frequently a prince or superior officer.
	www.americanrevolution.org /hessapp.html (1344 words)

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