During the American Revolution, Great Britain hired thirty thousand German troops to fight rebellious colonists.
Stories of their exploits still circulate in New Jersey, from the headless Hessian of the Morristown Swamp to the mysterious Ramapo M.
Though popular legend would cast them as cold and vicious mercenaries, many were prisoners of war with little choice.
Five thousand of those troops marched across New Jersey from Princeton and Trenton all the way to the northern tip of Sussex County.
During the American Revolution, Great Britain hired thirty thousand German troops to fight rebellious colonists