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    The Voyage of The First Hessian Army from Portsmouth to New York, 1776
    The Voyage of The First Hessian Army from Portsmouth to New York, 1776
    The Voyage of The First Hessian Army from Portsmouth to New York, 1776
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    The Voyage of The First Hessian Army from Portsmouth to New York, 1776

    By Johann Gottfried Seume and Albert Pfister

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    PublisherArchive Classics
    Release dateNov 26, 2013
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      The Voyage of The First Hessian Army from Portsmouth to New York, 1776 - Johann Gottfried Seume

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      Portsmouth to New York, 1776, by Albert Pfister and Johann Gottfried Seume

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      Title: The Voyage of The First Hessian Army from Portsmouth to New York, 1776

      Author: Albert Pfister

      Johann Gottfried Seume

      Release Date: November 10, 2008 [EBook #27230]

      Language: English

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      Heartman’s Historical Series No. 3

      THE VOYAGE

      OF

      The First Hessian Army

      FROM PORTSMOUTH TO NEW YORK

      1776

      One hundred and ten Copies printed for

      CHAS. FRED. HEARTMAN, New York City

      The following Historical Sketch is a translation from the German of A. Pfister. It was published some fifty years ago in a German periodical and is interesting enough to be reprinted in English as it contains hitherto very little known details of this voyage. At the end will be found an Extract from the Diary of the German Poet and Adventurer, J. G. Seume, a Hessian Soldier and Participator on the Voyage.

      January, 1915

      Ch. F. H.

      Number ...... of 110 copies printed.

      Also six printed on Japan Vellum.

      The troops belonging to the first Hessian Division had as yet not all been assembled in the harbor of Portsmouth, for, on account of the lack of transport ships, General von Mirbach with his regiment and that of Commander Rall, a Knyphausen Company, and a part of the Commissariat still remained at Bremerlehe, when the fleet was ready and the wind often long in coming, was just then very favorable to leave the channel. Then a rather peculiar circumstance occurred to prevent the start. Heister, the Hessian Commander-in-Chief, refused to start, feeling bound by the land grave’s express orders to keep all his divisions together. The king became exceedingly impatient, for the delay set an incalculable amount at stake—at last the Hessian minister at London, General von Schlieffen, took upon himself the responsibility of this urgent matter, and Heister, with a spirit of true faithfulness to service, went over with his Hessian troop ships to the remaining squadron at anchor at St. Hellens in the immediate vicinity.

      The fleet as gathered here numbered 100 sailing vessels, among which were 2 men-of-war with 50 cannons, 4 frigates of 36 cannons, and 2 fire-ships for the

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