Thousands of British and Hessian soldiers flanked the Marylanders. Few Americans would survive. Cornwallis’s men trained a light cannon and musket fire on the advancing Marylanders, who mounted ...
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In Jan. 1781, he led troops into Richmond for a raid. “Arnold led British and Hessian troops in capturing the town, driving American militia off the hill where the Chimborazo Medical Museum now ...
As the Second Continental Congress approved the Declaration of Independence in Philadelphia, New York City fell to a British fleet of 30,000 soldiers and Hessian mercenaries, German soldiers-for-hire.