ONE of the most interesting episodes in our Revolutionary War was Great Britain’s employment of German troops to aid in conquering her revolted provinces. There are several works by German authors ...

I was driving home last night in West Los Angeles and saw what appeared to be fifty members of the Hessians Motorcycle Club attending Lee Chang-dong's perfectly-paced character study of a 66-year-old ...

It is a story so well known it has become a meme. “Americans: Willing to cross a frozen river to kill you in your sleep on Christmas.” George Washington’s Continental Army, having suffered a series of ...

NATIONAL PARK, N.J.NATIONAL PARK, N.J. — Researchers believe they have uncovered in a mass grave in New Jersey the remains of as many as 12 Hessian soldiers who fought during the Revolutionary War, ...

LOS ANGELES -- If you grew up in New Jersey, you learned a lot about the Hessians, the German soldiers hired by the British to put down the American Revolution. Most famously, 900 of them were ...

This summer, a team of archaeologists and volunteers began excavating a tract of land that had recently been acquired by New Jersey’s Red Bank Battlefield Park, the site of a pivotal Revolutionary War ...

As far as words to use when you’ve written ‘metalhead’ too many times, my favorite is probably ‘hesher.’ It provides a pretty solid mental image, not simply of someone who likes metal but of someone ...

Editor’s Note: This article was originally published in 2023. It is a story so well known it has become a meme. “Americans: Willing to cross a frozen river to kill you in your sleep on Christmas.” ...