Of Hessians & Sleepy Hollow — How Americans Came to Demonize King George’s German Auxiliaries

“Wrongly maligned, the only Hessian monster may be the fictional headless one of Sleepy Hollow.” The dominant spirit… that haunts this enchanted region, and seems to be commander in chief of all the powers of the…

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