A Hessian officer's diary of the American Revolution
By: translated and edited by Bruce E. Burgoyne.
Contributors: Burgoyne, Bruce E.; Henry E. Huntington Library and Art Gallery.; Bayerisches Staatsarchiv Nürnberg.
Publisher: Heritage Books
Published: 1994
Place of publication: Bowie, MD
Language: eng
Number of pages: 318
Subjects: Prechtel, Johann Ernst -- Diaries.; Hessian mercenaries -- Diaries.; Germans -- United States -- History -- 18th century.; United States -- History -- Revolution, 1775-1783 -- Participation, German.; United States -- History -- Revolution, 1775-1783 -- Personal narratives, German.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (p. 302-304) and index.
Translated from German.
Originally published: The Ansbach-Bayreuth/Prechtel diaries. Dover, Del.? : B.E. Burgoyne, 1989.
Translated from an anonymous Ansbach-Bayreuth diary (as originally written by Johann Ernest Prechtel and presently in the Huntington Library, San Marino, California) and the Prechtel diary (a copy of which is in the Bavarian State Archives, Munich, Germany).