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German general; died at the Battle of Fort Mercer.
German general, served in America 1776—82.
German colonel, mortally wounded during the Battle of Trenton; 1726—76.
Hessian general in command of German and Indian forces during the Saratoga campaign; 1738—1800.
Continental Army general from Prussia; drilled the troops at Valley Forge; 1730—94.

The disarrayed condition of the colonies in 1764 — economies and societies in flux with changes wrought by war, governments trying simultaneously to adjust to international peace and cope with the effects of Indian insurrections — helps explain how the colonists reacted to British efforts to reform imperial relations.… But the single most significant factor was the depression that by 1764 had fastened a clammy grip on trade in every colony, and which would not fully release it until the decade had ended.

Fred Anderson
Crucible of War: The Seven Years’ War and the Fate of Empire in British North America, 1754 - 1766 (2000)