Hessian Powder Magazine information

The Hessian Powder Magazine, also known as the Hessian Guardhouse Museum, is an historic guardhouse and gunpowder magazine which is located on the grounds...

Massachusetts, NRHP-listed Powder House Island, an artificial island in the Detroit River, Michigan Hessian Powder Magazine, Carlisle, Pennsylvania, NRHP-listed...

because of the difficulty of overland travel at the time. The Hessian Powder Magazine, now Hessian Guardhouse Museum, was built in 1777. In 1794, Carlisle Barracks...

Massachusetts Magazine Beach, in Cambridgeport, Cambridge, Massachusetts Hessian Powder Magazine, Carlisle, Pennsylvania, listed on the NRHP Powder Magazine, Charleston...

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and large magazines of rum, rice and indigo. Following the surrender, the captured ordnance was brought to a powder magazine. A Hessian officer warned...

October 22, 1777, during the American Revolutionary War. A British and Hessian force was sent to take Fort Mercer on the New Jersey side of the Delaware...

Pattern 1776 rifle, it was essentially a copy of a Jäger style from Hanover. Hessian mercenary troops who fought for the British in the US Revolution included...

Buccaneer Bunny, "Shanghai Sam" in Mutiny on the Bunny, "Von Schamm the Hessian" in Bunker Hill Bunny, "Baron Sam von Schpamm" in Dumb Patrol, and many...

Thomas Gage dispatched an expedition to remove gunpowder from the powder magazine in Massachusetts on 1 September 1774. The next year on the night of...

during the war, around 25% of British land forces. In particular, 12,000 Hessian soldiers served as mercenaries on the side of British. However some Germans...

bastion held a bakery capable of producing 60 loaves of bread a day. A powder magazine was hacked out of the bedrock beneath the Joannes bastion. All the...

morning of December 26, 1776, Washington found himself left with hundreds of Hessian troops who had surrendered to the Americans. Washington ordered his troops...

of the Upper Rhine Plain, on the left bank of the Rhine, opposite the Hessian capital of Wiesbaden and the mouth of the River Main into the Rhine. It...

attack at Chadds Ford. Knyphausen's Column At 5:30 a.m. the British and Hessian troops began marching east along the "Great Road" (now Route 1) from Kennett...

Revolutionary War List of George Washington articles Richmond, Robert P. (1971). Powder Alarm 1774. Princeton: Auerbach. ISBN 978-0-87769-073-3. Cobbett's Parliamentary...

support of France and Spain, while the British and Loyalist forces hired Hessian soldiers from Germany for assistance. The conflict was fought in North...

was ultimately forced to cede the building, which became an annex of the Hessian Theater. This effectively interrupted stagings of A Stormy Night and many...

Hessians began to attack up Battle Pass, while the main army came at Sullivan from the rear. Sullivan left his advance guard to hold off the Hessians...

fire might set off the fort's powder magazine. The British left a burning powder trail to destroy Fort Griswold's magazine, but a militiaman entered the...

also convinced the British of the need to hire substantial numbers of Hessian auxiliaries to bolster their strength in the face of the new and formidable...

Putnam's lack of education and unsophisticated manner prompted a captured Hessian officer to comment that "This old gray-beard may be a good honest man,...

New Jersey in a surprise attack in late December 1776 and defeated the Hessian and British armies at Trenton and Princeton, thereby regaining control...

carried 206 men mainly from the Hessian du Corps regiment of Hessian mercenaries. The crossing was stormy, with two Hessians who were in the same fleet making...