There was not yet a country called Germany at the time of the Revolutionary War. Many of the states that would later combine into Germany were aligned politically with England. Most of the...
Germany sent over highly trained soldiers called Hessians. Washington attacked the Hessian stronghold at Trenton on Christmas Day. Without losing a soldier, the American Army defeated the Hessians....
The German mercenaries were commonly known as Hessians, because so many of them came from the principality of Hesse. There were also a large number from Brunswick, which lead some to refer to them as...