from braunschweig who signed up. johann henwick. he was a rock maple by trade protestant, some by year. the basic information from this certificate i know why he signed up. maybe was the bounty. i want to point out that he received $5, which by time at the time was quite generous. to put this into perspective, a servant's monthly at the time were maybe two in one and one and a half tallow. so five tallow is a pretty good amount cash that he would get just for signing up. also want to point out the dates. 1782. this is a good reminder that britain recruited actively recruited germans. well into that, you know, 1782. even into 1783. so conventional histories of the revolutionary war are often more or less over with yorktown. but, you know, focus on the germans reminds us, well, the war is not yorktown, at least not from the british perspective. so we have shipments, shipments of recruits that go to america in as as the fall of 1782. so recruits maybe went willingly to or they volunteered for an opportunity to improve the economic situ

he wrote this letter to his sister, consortia, in braunschweig.he sat down to write this letter, he had been in america for five long years. on the right here is a detailed from a map of the st. lawrence river. roughly from quebec to montreal. that is where the german troops that were in canada, some for the entire, war some never saw battle, that is pretty much where they were encamped. he himself was in this place i circled in red. this is where he, is writing this letter. his initial impressions of the land of canada, really quebec, had been quite positive. in fact, he described canada and another record as a kind of symbol world, a wilderness mostly untouched by what he called civilization. he felt that one point as though he was seeing, quote, nature in her first childhood. by 1781, this view had become less favorable. it is clear that he is lonely. and i should say that feelings of loneliness and homesickness are recurrent themes in these kinds of records. life in canada in particular is harsh. he feels isolated, doesn't even know what is go