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Quebec Canada Hessians
Our Sister Hessian Mailing List
2000 Hessians remained in Quebec and became French-Canadians
[english below] Liste QUEBEC-HESSIANS La liste QUEBEC-HESSIANS est dédiée aux soldats des troupes auxiliaires
allemandes fournies par les princes d'Allemagne et de Prusse à la demande du
souverain britannique George III pour la défense du Canada durant la Entre 1776 et 1783, près de 2 500 soldats et officiers des troupes de
Brunswick, Hesse-Hanau, Anhalt-Zerbst, et une partie des régiments de
Lossberg et Knyphausen des troupes du Hesse-Kassel ont servi au Québec. La liste QUEBEC-HESSIANS se veut donc un outil pour tous les
descendants de ces soldats auxiliaires allemands à la recherche de leurs
origines. L'administratrice actuelle de la liste est bilingue, et les messages peuvent être transmis en français ou en anglais (ou les deux !). L'inscription est gratuite. Voici le mode d'abonnement à la liste : envoyez un courriel à l'adresse : QUEBEC-HESSIANS-L-request@rootsweb.com Avec la mention (dans la case Objet et dans le corps du message) la commande subscribe sans texte additionel (ni ponctuation). Rootsweb vous enverra un
message (en anglais) Tous les messages de la liste sont archivés. Pour consulter les archives : http://archiver.rootsweb.com/QUEBEC-HESSIANS-L ou pour faire une recherche par mot-clé : http://searches.rootsweb.com/cgi-bin/listsearch.pl?list=quebec-hessians Dominique Ritchot
-------------- The QUEBEC-HESSIANS List is discussing those auxiliary soldiers who were supplied by German princes to the British King George III for the defence of Canada during the American Revolution Between 1776 and 1783, over 2 500 troops of the Brunswick, Hesse-Hanau,
Anhalt-Zerbst, and part of the Lossberg and Knyphausen regiments of the
Hesse-Kassel troops were stationned in Quebec. At the end of the war, close to 2
000 chose to stay in Quebec and most of them married French-Canadian women. The QUEBEC-HESSIANS list is a fine tool for the descendants of those auxiliary soldiers in search of their origins. The list was initiated by John Helmutt Merz. The current list administrator is bilingual, therefore all messages can be posted either in french or english (or both !). Subcription is free. How to subscribe to the List : send a message to QUEBEC-HESSIANS-L-request@rootsweb.com that contains (in the message Subject and body) the command subscribe and no additional text (or punctuation). You will then recieve a confirmation message from Rootsweb. All the messages of the list are archived. To search the archives : http://archiver.rootsweb.com/QUEBEC-HESSIANS-L or by keywords : http://searches.rootsweb.com/cgi-bin/listsearch.pl?list=quebec-hessians Cordialement, Dominique Ritchot
For questions about this list, contact the list administrator at QUEBEC-HESSIANS-admin@rootsweb.com
John Merz has some very interesting articles on Hessians in Canada at the Article's link in the tool bar above.
Interesting Articles on the Hessians in Canada
The Hessians a book on line at the link below, Very interesting. The first chapter is here. http://www.americanrevolution.org/hess1.html
This is Chapter 10 THE BRUNSWICKERS IN CANADA, 1776, http://www.americanrevolution.org/hess10.html
Very interesting site.. http://www.americanrevolution.org/ has a Loyalist section
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