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Definition of Hessians
1. hessian [n] - See also: hessian
Lexicographical Neighbors of Hessians
Literary usage of Hessians
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. History of the United States: From the Discovery of the American Continent by George Bancroft (1866)
"When the cannonading from the main army and the brigades under Grant was heard,
the hessians, with flying colors and music of drums and hautboys, ..."
2. Memoirs of the Rebellion in 1745 and 1746 by James Johnstone Johnstone (1821)
"He says, that the hessians were at Dunkeld, and that Lord Crawford, who was along
with them, ... I have always heard that the hessians marched to the pass, ..."
3. The American Revolution by George Otto Trevelyan (1905)
"west, fired sharply, and close at hand, into the flank of the hessians through the
... They are said to have taken prisoners sixty hessians, who afterwards ..."
4. The German Element in the United States by Albert Bernhardt Faust (1909)
"The popular impression about the hessians who served in the English army is that
they were ... The hessians were the victims of the tyranny of their rulers, ..."
5. A Students' History of the United States by Edward Channing (1912)
"hessians. which forms so striking a feature of the Declaration of Inde- America,
... for this reason they were generally known as hessians. ..."
6. The History and Antiquities of New England, New York, New Jersey, and by John Warner Barber (1856)
"Some of the leading men of Now Jersey and Pennsylvania were terrified into
submission by this pageantry. " Capture of the hessians at ..."
7. A History of All Nations, from the Earliest Periods to the Present Time; Or by Samuel Griswold Goodrich (1856)
"Capture of hessians — Victory at Princeton — Battles at Brandywine and ...
Such an effort he put forth in an attempt to surprise a body of hessians encamped ..."
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