A reproduction of an 1898 painting by Frederick Coffay Yohn showing the Battle of Red Bank on Oct. 22, 1777, when a small group of Continental Army soldiers repelled a major assault by Hessian ...

Joe Cardona, chief university spokesman, said the remains of 13 Hessian soldiers were discovered on land the county purchased in 2020 adjacent to the Red Bank Battlefield Park along the Delaware ...

(AP Photo/Matt Rourke) NATIONAL PARK, N.J. (AP) — Researchers believe they have uncovered in a mass grave in New Jersey the remains of as many as 12 Hessian soldiers who fought during the ...

Next up: They hope to locate descendants of the Hessian mercenaries left in a mass grave after a failed attack on an American fort in October 1777. That could allow genealogists to go back more ...

Just 14 American soldiers died, while Hessian casualties numbered 377. According to the website dedicated to the recent excavation, the battle represents “[o]ne of the greatest upsets of the ...

On the last day of a public dig for artifacts, researchers from Rowan University discovered a mass Revolutionary War grave site for Hessian soldiers. A rare 1776 British gold guinea was discovered on ...

The Hessian Powder Magazine was built in 1777, as part of a Continental Army Depot outside Carlisle known informally as “Washingtonburg.” This depot would eventually become the Carlisle ...