Soldiers for Sale

Name: Soldiers for Sale
Brand: Baraka Books
SKU: 9781926824321
Price: 16.99 EUR
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ISBN: 978-1-926-82432-1

German "Mercenaries" with the British in Canada during the American Revolution (1776-83)

de Jean-Pierre Wilhelmy (auteur), Marcel Trudel (préface), Virginia Easley DeMarce (préface)

Maison d'édition : Baraka Books

mars 2012

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All historians specializing in the American Revolution and its battles.Potential Customers:People interested in knowing more about the "Hessians," why they were recruited (sometimes kidnapped), where they came from and how they ended up in North America.Geneologists, because of the vast work on German names that have been anglicized and gallicized in North America.

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Résumé

The British Army that fought the American Revolutionaries was in fact an Anglo-German army. The British Crown had doubts about the willingness of English soldiers to fight against other English-speaking people in North America. It also doubted the loyalty of the Canadiens who had only just been taken over after the conquest of New France. It thus turned to the princes of German States, who were also relatives of England’s ruling family, to obtain troops. To the Americans, these soldiers are known as The Hessians. In return for large amounts of money, German princes and barons provided about 30,000 soldiers, of whom some 10,000 were located in Canada for up to seven years and 2,400 chose to remain in Canada after the war. Many were dragged unwillingly from their families and sent to fight in a war in which they had no interest. Those who remained in Canada represented close to 5 percent of the male population at the time. They melted into the French and English-speaking societies, their names were Gallicized or Anglicized, but their history was unknown until this book appeared, even to their own descendants.

Auteur

Jean-Pierre Wilhelmy (auteur)

Diplômé en génie civil et expert en transport, Jean-Pierre Wilhelmy est devenu par ailleurs le spécialiste des « mercenaires allemands ». Sur le même sujet, il a publié deux romans avec Louise Simard, La guerre des autres et De père en fille.
Marcel Trudel (Préface de)

Né en 1917, ancien professeur des Universités Laval, Carleton et Ottawa, « visiting professor » à l'Université Harvard où il a fait un stage de recherches pendant deux ans sur l'histoire canado-américaine, Trudel a publié une cinquantaine de volumes sur l
Virginia Easley DeMarce (Préface de)

Virginia Easley DeMarce (1940-) is a historian who specializes in early modern European history. She received her Ph.D. form Stanford University in 1967. She taught at the college lever for fifteen years, at Northwest Missouri State University, and George Mason University an published a book on German military settlers in Canada after the American Revolution. She served as president of the National Genealogical Society in 1988-89. In addition to her scholarly work, genealogy, and bibliographic work in early US history, Ms DeMarce has written or co-authored a number of formative short stories and novels in the 1632 series collaborataive fiction project.