Skip header and navigation
  Revise Search

Revise Search

2 records – page 1 of 1.

The Hessian prisoners in the American War of Independence and their life in captivity

https://collections.lancasterhistory.org/en/permalink/lhdo1077
Author
Volm, M. H.
Date of Publication
1937
Call Number
973.342 V926
More detail
  1 website  
Responsibility
by M.H. Volm.
Author
Volm, M. H.
Place of Publication
[Charlottesville? Va
Publisher
s.n.,
Date of Publication
1937
Physical Description
27 p. ; 22 cm.
Notes
Title from cover.
Bibliography: p. 26-27.
Summary
This essay provides contextual information concerning how the English actually hired the soldiers and why the German princes, and not other nations who were asked, were willing to sell their men to English. It also discusses how the English and German public reacted to the hiring of German soldiers.
Subjects
United States - History - Revolution, 1775-1783 - Participation, German.
United States - History - Revolution, 1775-1783 - German mercenaries.
United States - History - Revolution, 1775-1783 - Prisoners and prisons.
Location
Lancaster History Library - Book
Call Number
973.342 V926
Websites
https://babel.hathitrust.org/cgi/pt?id=mdp.39015059428360;view=1up;seq=3
Less detail

Wentz; a record of some descendants of Peter Wentz, the immigrant

https://collections.lancasterhistory.org/en/permalink/lhdo3880
Author
Wentz, Helen,
Date of Publication
c1939]
Call Number
929 W481
More detail
  1 website  
Responsibility
compiled by Helen Wentz [and] Bertha Earnhart.
Author
Wentz, Helen,
Place of Publication
[Kennett Square, Pa
Publisher
Kennett news and advertiser,
Date of Publication
c1939]
Physical Description
214 p., 1 leaf. incl. front., illus., ports. facsims., fold. geneal. tab., col. coat of arms. 24 cm.
Notes
Addenda : A love story, by Dr. A. R. Wentz, mounted on leaf at end.
Subjects
Wentz family.
Additional Author
Earnhart, Bertha,
Location
Lancaster History Library - Book
Call Number
929 W481
Websites
https://babel.hathitrust.org/cgi/pt?id=wu.89062493911;view=1up;seq=7
Less detail