APPENDIX.
299
D.
TABLE OF THE NUMBER OF TROOPS SENT TO AMERICA BY EACH ONE OF THE GERMAN STATES, AND OF THE NUMBER THAT RETURNED.
The numbers originally given in Schlözer's “Stats-Anzeigen” (vi. pp. 521, 522), were corrected by Kapp as to the Anspach contingent. They form, perhaps, the nearest approximation attainable.
Brunswick sent in 1776 | 4,300 |
Brunswick sent in March, 1777 | 224 |
Brunswick sent in April, 1778 | 475 |
Brunswick sent in April, 1779 | 286 |
Brunswick sent in May, 1780 | 266 |
Brunswick sent in April, 1782 | 172 |
Total | 5,723 |
Returned in the autumn of 1783 | 2,708 |
Did not return | 3,015 |
Hesse-Cassel sent in 1776 | 12,805 |
Hesse-Cassel sent in December, 1777 | 403 |
Hesse-Cassel sent in March, 1779 | 993 |
Hesse-Cassel sent in May, 1780 | 915 |
Hesse-Cassel sent in April, 1781 | 915 |
Hesse-Cassel sent in April, 1782 | 961 |
Total | 16,992 |
Returned in the autumn of 1783 and the spring of 1784 | 10,492 |
Did not return | 6,500 |
Hesse-Hanau, under various treaties | 2,038 |
Hesse-Hanau recruits sent in April, 1781 | 50 |
Hesse-Hanau recruits sent in April, 1782 | 334 |
Total | 2,422 |
Returned in the autumn of 1783 | 1,441 |
Did not return | 981 |