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Seventy rolls and six other documents of the German regiments employed by the British to fight in the American Revolutionary War; a copy of the treaty executed in 1776 between the duke of Brunswick and George III for hiring German mercenaries.
The rosters list the following regiments:
Anhalt Zerbst. Army under Riedesel, Regiment Prinz Friedrich, Grenadier Battalion von Mengen, Regiment von Riedesel, Regiment von Specht.
Hesse-Cassel. Grenadier Battalion vacant Graff; Grenadier Battalion von Loewenstein,Company von Biesenrodt, Company von Mondorff, Company von Wachs; Grenadier Regiment d'Angelelli, Leib Conmpany; Regiment von Bunau, Leib Company; Regiment Erb Prinz (4 folls for this list names of Hessians captured at Yorktown), Company von Cochenhausen, Company von Fuchs; Regiment von Lossberg, jr., Company von Baurmeister, Company von Biesenrodt, Company von Romrod, Company von Wilmowsky, Leib Company.
Hesse-Hanau. Artillery detachment under Pausch.
Waldeck. Third Regiment, Company von Alberti, Company von Horn, Company von Penzel.
Purchased, 1929 and 1957
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