i'm going to offer that to doctor philip mead. >> thank, you tyler.alked a lot about the anxieties that the princes and the long groves had about sending their troops to america out of europe. but also the temptations of the income.,, what were the middle and long term effects for these choices by the german principalities? was it destabilizing? was it enhancing of their income, development? was this depopulation a significant problem? what does this tell us about german history? >> that's a good question. i think it was a big moneymaker. but it is complicated. so, the subsidy payments did help finance projects and in most territories that, where i would say, benefited the territory generally. great example of this is the spas in hanau that were built with subsidy payments. there's a huge construction project essentially that employed a lot of locals and then becomes a tourist destination, basically. with the economic impact long term, longer term, was favorable. some of these territories were able to pay down debts and sort of pull back from the verg

my name is, philip mead. i'm the chief historian and curator of this museum of the american revolution. so pleased to see you all tonight for fredricka bears. presentation on the hessians. scott stephenson. sends his regrets he had intended be here tonight hosting but was unavailable. he though he may be watching from zoom so if you're out there, scott. hello i wanted to call your attention tonight to important object that we actually have in this room. this is a fragment of a hessian miter cap from the fusileers on nip of hersey castle. it was discovered, among other fragments of these in the delaware river in, the early 20th century, and some research by craig nanos and others has pretty well establish that it was lost when a troop transport went under in may of human march of 1778 in the delaware river, and no one drowned all of the soldiers on board survived. but obviously a bunch of their things stayed in the river. they were dredged up, are on display. other pieces of that same material are on display i