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Pete Hegseth, the nominee of choice from President-elect Donald Trump to lead the Pentagon, shared a short Christmas message ...

The Hessians have certainly got bad press ever since the Declaration of Independence: “He is at this time transporting large armies of foreign Mercenaries to complete the works of death ...

On Dec. 26, 2004, an earthquake-triggered tsunami raced across the Indian Ocean with 40-foot-high waves slamming into India, Thailand, Indonesia and several other countries, killing at least 225,000 ...

As the Second Continental Congress approved the Declaration of Independence in Philadelphia, New York City fell to a British fleet of 30,000 soldiers and Hessian mercenaries, German soldiers-for-hire.

Low on men, cannons and supplies, Washington decides to risk everything on one last desperately daring attack on the town of Trenton where over 1000 of the feared Hessian mercenaries are garrisoned.

George Washington, having crossed the Delaware River on Christmas night, defeated Hessian mercenary troops fighting for the British at the Battle of Trenton, N.J. In 1908, Jack Johnson ...