In the war for independence it wasn’t just the Americans and British. Other than them the Americans were join by some Indians. The Indians also joined the British, but also the British hired the Hessians. The British rented the army, in doing so the Hessian Ruler was able to keep taxes low and public spending high. They were ruthless military men, but to the British they saw them as human shields so they were in most of the battles for the most part. About 30,000 Hessians were recruited for the British army making up about a quarter of the soldiers sent to America.

The Hessians were in about every battle during the Revolutionary war. There was a lot of propaganda about the Hessians. They were labeled as merciless, mercenaries who care non-about America. When hessians were captured and imprisoned they were forced to work in local farms and were offered land bounties to desert and join the Americans. Some did, while most returned to Germany. When the Hessians came to battle did not wear the uniforms of the British Army, but of their land and used their guns mainly because they hired mercenaries of the British and not apart of the actual army. …show more content…
The line infantry were armed with muskets, while the Hessian artillery used three-pounder cannon. While others had büchse, a short, large-caliber rifle well suited to woodland combat. While the Hessians fought many had died. They were taken as prisoners and stayed in the America and even helped fight while others left back to their home countries. Even though they fought in nearly every battle after 1777, the British used them mainly as garrison and patrol troops. An assortment of Hessians fought in the battles and campaigns in the southern states during 1778–80, and two regiments fought at the Siege of Yorktown in