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Hessians
Six German principalities provided 30,000 soldiers to Great Britain to fight against the American rebels during the War for Independence. More than half of these troops for hire came from HesseCassel. Hessian thus would serve as the generic term for all German mercenaries fighting in the war, whether or not they came from Hesse Cassel.
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