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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-Chi