Hessian Influence on the Revolutionary War

omf let me please just look at this freaking paper so that i can get on with my pathetic freaking life and do this research paper hopefully get a C at least and then roll over and die from cutting my wrists all because you gus want me to write down 250 words so that i can read ONE STUPID ESSAY im not coming back to this site ever again if this does not help me. How many words do i have i wonder how long it will take to just get this over with i wonder. God help whatever stupid idiot made up the idea to already have a paper written JUST TO LOG in to this stupid site i wish this place would just let me in so i can read this thing cmon man!In the latter part of 1775 the situation of England was a grave one. The opponents in Parliament to the action of the ministry were numerous, and comprised some of the foremost men in that body The military position of the country was still worse. Twenty-eight thousand sailors and fifty thousand soldiers had been asked for; but these were insufficient for the purposes required, and a bill enabling the king to call out the militia, to use in America, was passed.

Yet the need of soldiers was immediate, and application was made to various Continental powers, among them Holland, where a so-called Scottish brigade had existed since early in the seventeenth century. But Holland refused the use of this body, except for employment in Europe. This George III. declined. He had, indeed, obtained assistance from another quarter. Contracts had been made for the enlistment of soldiers in some of the petty German states. These were in part secret, but open negotiations were carried on with the Duke of Brunswick and the Landgrave of Hesse-Cassel. The subjects of these magnates were bought like so many cattle, it being arranged with the duke that every soldier killed should be paid for at the rate of the levy-money, and that three wounded should be reckoned as one killed. An annual subsidy was to be paid.

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