American History From German Archives, With Reference to the German Soldiers in the Revolution And Franklin's Visit to Germany
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CHAPTER IV. German Soldiers in the French Service, IT "N the French service under Rochambeau there were many German soldiers, and Rat- termann in Der Deutsche Pio- nier,Yo\. 13, 1881, gives an ac- count of them, notably the Zwei- briicken Regiment, of which two Princes or Counts of that name were respectively Colonel and Lieutenant Colonel. It is worth noting that Lafayette wrote to Washington of a visit to them in Zweibriicken long after the American war, when he met " Old Knyp " and officers ...who had served both with and against him there. There was a battalion from Trier in the Saintonge Regiment under Custine, like himself from Lothringen. There were Alsacians and Lothringers in light companies attached to the Bourbonnais and Soisson- nais Regiments. There were many Germans in the Duke de Lauzun's Cavalry Legion, whose names are printed from the records preserved in Harrisburg. In the army (32) Regiment Deux Fonts, 33 that made part of d'Estaing's expedition against Savannah, in the autumn of 1779, there was an " Anhalt " Regiment, 600 strong ; of individual German officers with Rocham- beau, there were Count Fersen, his chief of staff, Freiherr Ludwig von Closen Haydenburg, his Adjutant, Captain Gau, his Chief of Artillery, and a Strasburg Professor Lutz, his interpreter.
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