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Reenactor Links:

• Hessian Jaeger Corps
• More Hessian Jaegers
• Hessen-Hanau Jagers
• Hessian Regiment von Bose
• Hessian Regiment von Knyphausen
• Brunswick Regiment von Riedesel
• Brunswick Light Infantry Battalion von Barner
• Brunswick Jaegers (in Germany)
• The 1999 Encampment in Fulda, State of Hesse, Germany
• Gesellschaft für Hessische Militär und Zivilgeschichte
• Historiche Darstellungsgruppe Munchen e.V.
• The British Brigade
• The Brigade of the American Revolution

Historical Links:

• American Revolution Roundtable of Philadelphia A diverse group of people interested in the American Revolution. The kind of people we like.
• Ed Lowell's 'The Hessians and other German Auxiliaries of Great Britain in the Revolutionary War'(1884) is now online. This is one of the older, but still very informative books on Hessians. Keep in mind that this a 300+ page book that has been placed online, and has been broken down by chapter. An excellent resource.
• An excellent account of the Battle of Trenton, From the Old Barracks Museum in Trenton New Jersey.
• The Ten Crucial Days A website devoted to the Battles of Trenton and Princeton and two weeks that saved the Revolution.
• A description of the battle of Guilford Courthouse, where the Hessian Regiment von Bose and Hessian Jaegers fought.
• REVWAR.COM Information and links to sites about the American Revolutionary War (1775-1783) era as well as services.
• The US Army's listing of articles and books on German soldiers in the American Revolution. This list is pretty complete.
• The Legend of Sleepy Hollow, courtesy of the Guttenburg project. Remember that the headless horseman was allegedly a Hessian soldier.
• American Society for Eighteenth Century Studies
• Hessian Diaries of the American Revolution Diaries of Hessian soldiers translated by Bruce Burgoyne. Great stuff.

Genealogical Links:

• Jochen Seidel's website. A unique source on the Ansbach-Bayreuth troops who served in North America. Jochen is trying to document all A-B troops who stayed in North America.
• Details on one person's ancestor in the Hesse-Hanau Regiment Erbprinz.
• Details on one person's relative in the Hessian Fusilier Regiment Ditfurth.
• A site on the Hessian Fusilier Regiment von Ditfirth. This site includes a listing of the names of all the soldiers in the von Ditfurth regiment.
• Heritage Books, a good place for genealogy works.
• Internet Listing of Hessian Soldiers of the American Revolution. This is not a HETRINA site, but rather a list of genealogical reports of Hessian ancestors people have found.
• Rootsweb Registry of Hessian names.. Type in an ancestors name and see if anything on them has been discussed in the rootsweb archives.
• IGS HETRINA searches.. These folks will also do a HETRINA search for you. They will charge you $15. The HETRINA is a multiple volume listing listing of all soldiers that served in the Hessian army in America. Other volumes for other Germans states (Anspach, Brunswick, etc.) are also available for search.
• The Johannes Schwalm Historical Association. This historic and genealogical society is based on the descendants of one Hessian soldier by the name of Johannes Schwalm.
• The German-Canadian Studies webpage
• Staatsarchiv Marburg A huge repository of documents relating to the Hessians in North Amreica.

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