Tag: War of Independence
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…
How a Shortage of Gunpowder Nearly Ended America’s Bid for Independence
Happy July 4th to all of Military History Now’s American readers (and there sure are a lot of you!). In honour of the United States’ 237th birthday, we thought we’d re-blog an item from June…
