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The Non-Hessian German Soldiers of the American Revolution

On 9 January 1776, while seeking assistance in suppressing the colonial rebellion in North America, Great Britain entered into its first formal military alliance with a German state since the start of the conflict – in exchange for the sum of 64,500 Banco-Thaler, Britain would receive 3,964 infantrymen and 336 light cavalrymen to assist in combat operations in North America.

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The Kamenets-Podolsky Pocket 1944

The situation on the Eastern Front in early 1944 was pretty grim for the German Ostheer (Army in the East). The Soviet Red Army was across the Dnepr River in force, had liberated Kiev, isolated one German–Romanian army in the Crimea and had just won a significant victory in the Battle of the Korsun Pocket.

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