A Defence of the Hessians

This book is a political pamphlet by an American lawyer, historian, and Civil War veteran Joseph George Rosengarten. It touches upon the attack on Prussia in 1866 for seizing and holding Hesse-Cassel, along with Hanover and Brunswick. That campaign drove the Elector of Cassel and the King of Hanover into exile. The author protects Hessians and, as he states, «aims at elevating the claims of the Hessian electoral family in the eyes of their former subjects and of the rest of the world.»