The German Allied Troops in the North American War of Independence, 1776-1783 - Hardcoverby Max Von Eelking (Author), Joseph George Rosengarten (Author) Britain's German Army at War The Hessian became something of a 'bogey man' to the revolutionary period American citizen. Already outraged at the treatment they had received at the hands of the government of the country which they could not fail to regard as a motherland, this new enemy a veritable viper in the bosom had the temerity to unleash not only savages upon them, but foreign