Crossword clues for hessians
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Hessian \Hes"sian\, a. Of or relating to Hesse, in Germany, or to the Hessians.
Hessian boots, or Hessians, boot of a kind worn in
England, in the early part of the nineteenth century,
tasseled in front.
--Thackeray.
Hessian cloth, or Hessians, a coarse hempen cloth for sacking.
Hessian crucible. See under Crucible.
Hessian fly (Zo["o]l.), a small dipterous fly or midge ( Cecidomyia destructor). Its larv[ae] live between the base of the lower leaves and the stalk of wheat, and are very destructive to young wheat; -- so called from the erroneous idea that it was brought into America by the Hessian troops, during the Revolution.
Usage examples of "hessians".
At dawn, in another feint, the Hessians began pummeling the American right wing with artillery at the Flatbush Pass.
Elsewhere, the Hessians ransacked every dwelling they came upon and absolutely looted the more luxurious country estates—”all the Furniture, Glass, and Windows,” lamented one British official, with some embarrassment, “and the very Hangings of the Rooms [were] demolished or defaced.
According to one British soldier, some of the Hessians and Scots Highlanders, having been told the Americans had intended to show them no mercy, had “put all to death that fell into their hands.
After the battle, it was reported in Britain that 3,000 rebels had been killed or taken prisoner, as against 300 Hessians and 50 English regulars.
Rahl had fought with distinction at White Plains, where his Hessians had turned the American flank, and at Fort Washington, where they had borne the brunt of the fighting.
Aside from the false alarm that had made the Hessians complacent, the story goes that a loyalist spy or disgruntled farmer had appeared at Rahl’s headquarters later that night to tell him that Washington was advancing on his camp.
Burgoyne then ordered 500 Hessians under General Riedesel with light field artillery to attack the American right.
At Saratoga, a patriot army made up primarily of militiamen from New England and New York twice defeated and finally captured nearly 6,000 redcoats and Hessians, turning the tide of the war.
To avoid entrapment, most of the British cavalry and artillery, two regiments of Hessians, and some 3,000 loyalists with their movable property were sent to New York by sea, while the rest of the army—9,000 strong, with a baggage train of 1,500 wagons that extended almost twelve miles—set out on a forced march across New Jersey.
Fifty Hessians fell to the American bayonets and 158 were captured, with only a handful of casualties on the American side.
After 3,000 Hessians arrived from Europe to reinforce Clinton, he pleaded for reinforcements from the eastern states.
On a marble pedestal, in bas-relief, were to be depicted the five great military events of the war in which he had personally led the command: the Siege of Boston, the Capture of the Hessians at Trenton, the Battle of Princeton, the Action at Monmouth, and the Surrender of Cornwallis at Yorktown.
When the rest of us left for fear of the Swedes and Hessians, they stayed.
They've been through hard times, what with the Hessians and everything.
Combine that with the landgrave of Hesse's efforts to make the knights his vassals before the NUS showed up, and figure that the NUS was allied with the king of Sweden who was allied with the Hessians, who were Calvinists .