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The German Soldier in the Wars of the United States
The various contributions of persons of German descent to the American military cause from colonial times through the 19th century are documented. This newly edited and revised third edition includes illustrations, a foreword by Lawrence Knorr, and an afterword by Morris Jastrow, Jr.
A Defence of the Hessians
A Defence of the Hessians by J. G. (Joseph George) Rosengarten The Seven Years' War had enlisted England's rich help in men and money. A powerful army of one hundred thousand men, composed of English soldiers, of twenty-four thousand Hessians, of Hanoverians and Brunswickers, enabled Frederick of Prussia to continue a resistance which otherwise he could not have maintained for two years. The North German states were not Prussian vassals, but allies of England for a hundred years, on the basis of common political aims. Hesse, as the stronghold of the Protestants of North Germany, had been in close alliance with England at a time when Brandenburg was little thought of. The ancient military glo...
The Red-Cross Knights
The Red-Cross Knights By J. G. (Joseph George) Holman The Red-Cross Knights: A play, in five acts. As performed at the Theatre-Royal, Hay-Market. Founded on The robbers of Schiller. By J. G. Holman.Joseph George Rosengarten was a Philadelphia lawyer, historian, and Civil War veteran. He served on the staff of General John F. Reynolds.Born in August 1764, he was son of John Major Holman of St. Giles's, Middlesex, an ensign and adjutant in the British service, who died when his son was two years of age. He was placed by an uncle at Barwis's school in Soho Square, where amateur acting was in vogue. With a view to the church as a career, he matriculated 7 February 1783 at The Queen's College, Ox...
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The German Soldier in the Wars of the United States, and Related Letters and Clippings
Two different printed copies of J. G. Rosengarten's work The German soldier in the wars of the United States, bound together with the following related items (tipped in): 13 original letters addressed to Rosengarten, dated 16 January to 13 April 1886; and 47 clippings, dated May 1885 to September 1886. The 2 printed works comprise the first 2 published forms of the work: 1) in the United Service magazine, in the numbers for June, July, and August 1885; and 2) reprinted as a separate pamphlet of 49 pages, published by J. B. Lippincott Company, Philadelphia, in 1886, under the title: The German soldier in the wars of the United States: an address, read before the Pionier-Verein, at the hall of...
