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The Patriots had some advantages over British mercenaries. The Patriots were familiar with the land and different terrains that would be helpful to stage battles.

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Who were the German soldiers the british hired in the revolutionary war?

History records that "Hessians" were the German mercenaries who fought the colonists. However, they were not mercenaries in the modern sense. The term comes from soldiers in service to the state of Hesse-Cassel, which like Hanover was not yet part of a unified German state. To utilize the standing military forces, King George III paid a fee to his uncle, Frederick II, Landgrave of Hesse-Cassel. This was not the only time soldiers from German regions were used in the British Empire. More than 1/4 of about 24,000 of these soldiers died during the war. The term "Hessian mercenary" is somewhat of a generalization, as a number of the German-British soldiers fighting under King George III came from the German region of Hanover, which was a British holding at the time. King George III was descended from the House of Hanover, which was a royal German family, and many of the Germans who fought for him during the American Revolution were actually his legal subjects, meaning they weren't mercenaries at all. There is no doubt many German mercenaries, particularly from Hesse, also fought in support of the British Crown, but Germany was not a united country at that time in history, as much of it was known as the Holy Roman Empire, and different Germans had different allegiances. "Hessian mercenary" was more or less a general term that denoted all German mercenaries, be they from Hesse, Prussia, or any where else in the German speaking lands.


Who were mercenaries?

hired professional soldier who fights for any state or nation without regard to political interests or issues. From the earliest days of organized warfare until the development of political standing armies in the mid-17th century, governments frequently supplemented their military forces with mercenaries.


What country were hessians from?

The Hessians were auxilliary troops from Hess, a state in what is now Germany (The term "Hessian" is now used to refer to all German troops deployed by the Crown in the American Revolution, although not all of them were necessarily from Hess). They were most notably "rented" out by their rulers to the British during the American revolution.


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Most early state governments were representative while the British government was a monarchy.

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