For enslaved Black Americans living through the Revolutionary War, freedom sometimes meant donning the red coat of the enemy. Such was the case for the Carolina Corps, a military unit comprising ...

Thousands of British and Hessian soldiers ... treatment of the American Revolution, detailing the most important elements of nearly every significant battle of The War of Independence.

Adams knew the American Revolution ... to a British fleet of 30,000 soldiers and Hessian mercenaries, German soldiers-for-hire. A crucial turning point in the war came at the end of 1777, in ...

In the deep of a cold night almost 250 years ago, a handful of soldiers ... the Hessians there on Dec. 26, 1776. That victory, more than any other, changed the fortunes of the Revolution.