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lected works, and the changes between this and the earlier version 
have been unfavorably commented on. 
Schlézer’s Briefwechsel, ten volumes, 1776-1782, and his Staats 
Anzeigen, a continuation, in eighteen volumes, contain many papers 
of interest relating to the American War of Independence, notably 
a series of letters from an officer who served under Burgoyne, and 
dragged out weary months as a prisoner of war in Cambridge and 
later in Virginia. The Frankfort Meuesten Staatsbegebenhetten 
published letters by German officers describing the battle of Long 
Island. 
v. Senden, Tagebuch, in Zectschrift fiir Geschichte des Krieges, 
Berlin, Mittler, 8th and gth parts, 1839. He too was a general 
officer at the time of his death. 
v. Heister, Diary, in Zettschrift fir Kunst des Krieges, Berlin, 
Mittler, Vol. xii, No. 3, 1828. 
Reimer, Amerikanisches Archiv., 3 vols., Brunswick, 1777-8. 
Melsheimer, Zagebuch, Minden, 1776. 
Riedesel, Mme., Die Berufsreise nach Amerika, Berlin, 1801 
(and frequently reprinted). One of the most charming books that 
can be found—full of womanly heroism. 
Leiste, Beschreibung des Brittischen Amerika, Wolfenbiittel, 
1778. 
Schheffen, Von den Hessen in Amerika, 1782. 
Brunswick Magazine, a Hessian journal reprinted in translation 
in the Pennsylvania Magazine, and a letter from the Duke to Rie- 
desel advising all supernumerary officers and sick and wounded and 
men under punishment to remain in America. 
Der Flessische Officier in Amerika, a comedy, Géttingen, 1783, 
has no great literary value or importance, but some local interest, 
as the scene is laid in Philadelphia during its occupancy by the 
British, and Indians, Quakers, British and German soldiers and 
Native citizens are among the dramatis persone. If it was not 
written by some one who had been here, it shows at least consider- 
able familiarity with the conflicting parties during the Revolution. 
Of recent works dealing with the German soldiers in the British 
army during the American War of Independence, the most notable 
are: 
Max von Eelking, Die Deutschen Hiilfstruppen im Nordameri- 
kanischen Befreiungskriege, 1776 bis 1783., Hanover, 1863, 2 vols. 
(An abridged translation was printed by Munsell in Albany in 1893.) 
