CSPAN2 Friederike Baer Hessians September 24, 2022
This is a fragment of a hessian miter cap from the fusileers napoleon of hezekiahs cell. It was discovered, among other fragments, these caps in the Delaware River in the early 20th century. And Historical Research by craig nanos and others has pretty well established that it was lost when a troop transport fort went under in may of human march of 1778 in the Delaware River, and no one drowned. All of the soldiers on board, but obviously a bunch of their stayed in the river. They were dredged and are on display. Other pieces of that same material are on in the corps galleries. So tonight we ha...