American revolutionary warspeech actsparliamentary debatesThis article will explore the differing attitudes among British parliamentarians towards the use of German soldiers in 1756 and 1776. Utilising speech act theory, it will be shown that German soldiers were constructed as mercenaries in 1776 because...
It fought on the side of the Swedes in the Thirty Years’ War and on the side of Great Britain in the Seven Years’ War. During the 18th century Hessian troops fought in nearly every European and Turkish campaign, and in 1776–86 as many as 17,000 Hessian mercenaries fought for the ...