The Hessians

   We all know that the English were terribly humiliated when they suffered a defeat by an army, if you can give that name to a bunch of untrained farmers.
 The army of England was one of the largest and yet so powerful and sought help from the Hessians. The Hessians were mercenaries who worked for the one that offered better pay. In the AmericanRevolution, Landgrave Frederick II, Hired about thirty Thousand soldiers conscripted to fight for England. The name of the Hessians comes from their dwelling they were of  HesseKassel. The great diference between modern mercenaries and Hessians is that the second were debtors or prisoners that were going to win their liberty from jail or other comitments.This German soldiers were loyal to King George III who fought for Britain in the Revolutionary War. Hessians helped England because King George was from Hanover, a place in Germany, and he called back home, asking for soldiers willing to fight in the new world. They are known because they were surprised at Trenton by Washington´s forcesd and defeated at Trenton by General George Washington whose army had just crossed the Delaware River in the night of  the 25 of December of 1776.