The Hessian Mercenary State
Subtitle: Ideas, Institutions, and Reform under Frederick II, 17601785
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Published: December 26, 1986
Language: eng
Format: Hardcover
Number of pages: 256
ISBN-13: 9780521327565
Subjects: European history: c 1500 to c 1750; c 1700 to c 1800; c 1800 to c 1900; Hesse (Germany); Germany - History; U.S. History - Revolution And Confederation (1775-1789); History - General History; Landgrave of Hesse-Kassel,; Central Europe; Germany; History; Europe - General; Europe - Germany; History / Europe / General; 1567-1806; 1720-1785; Frederick; II,
First sentence: With these words Gabriele Riquetti, comte de Mirabeau, appealed to the Hessian people and their American expeditionary force to abandon the petty despotism of Landgrave Frederick II (1760-85).