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Hessians

Stuff You Missed in History Class

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The Battle of Hess Castle

Hess Castle had to pay for replacement soldiers who were killed or injured too badly to return to the field. The Hessian troops that came with this agreement could only serve in Europe and America. If illness or a shipwreck or some other disaster wiped out a whole unit, that was then on Britain to pay for.

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