The Hessian Mercenary State
Subtitle: Ideas, Institutions, and Reform under Frederick II, 17601785
Edition: New Ed edition
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Published: February 13, 2003
Language: eng
Format: Paperback
Number of pages: 252
ISBN-13: 9780521533225
Subjects: European history: c 1500 to c 1750; European history: c 1750 to c 1900; c 1700 to c 1800; c 1800 to c 1900; History: American; History; History - General History; Germany; Europe - General; History / Europe / General
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).