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Johann Ewald's American War Diaries: A Hessian's Memoir of the War for Independence
with Andrew Sola and Prof. James McIntyre (Moraine Valley CC)
"He is at this time transporting large Armies of foreign Mercenaries to compleat the works of death, desolation and tyranny, already begun with circumstances of Cruelty & perfidy scarcely paralleled in the most barbarous ages, and totally unworthy the Head of a civilized nation."
In this episode, we examine one of the most important first-person accounts of the War for Independence, Johann Ewald's American War Diaries.
Ewald was an elite Hessian Officer who spent 8 long years in North America fighting against the Patriots on behalf…
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