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• Great Siege of Gibraltar -- June 24, 1779 – February 7, 1783
• Battle of the Chesapeake -- 5 September 1781
• Siege of Yorktown (1781) -- ending October 19, 1781
  (Articles of Capitulation, also signed October 19, 1781)
• Battle of Saintes -- April 9, 1782
• Battle of the Mona Passage -- April 19, 1782
• Treaty of Paris (1783) -- September 3, 1783
  (Preliminary articles signed January 20, 1783, at Versailles)

Sources on Hessian mercenaries

Sources taken from the Bibliography that refer to Hessian or German soldiers as mercenaries.

1. Axelrod, 2009. The Real History of the American Revolution: A New Look at the Past, pp. 119, 127, 154, 208, 367
2. Black, Jeremy, 2001. War for America: The Fight for Independence, 1775–1783, pp. 24, 252
3. Taylor, American Revolution, 2016, p. 159
4. Lowell, Edward Jackson, 1884. The Hessians and the other German auxiliaries of Great Britain in the Revolutionary War, pp. 5, 14, 22, 32, 36, 169, 194, 282, 294, 298, 317
5. Chernow, Washington, A Life, 2010, p. 235 - Not in Bibliography
6. H. D. Schmidt, 1958, The Hessian mercenaries: the career of a political cliche, pp. 207-212
7. Ellis, Joseph, 2013, Revolutionary Summer: The Birth of American Independence, pp. 11, 51, 71, 84, 215
8. Bonwick, Colin, The American Revolution, pp. 89, 111, 113, 257, 327
9. Clode, The military forces of the crown ; their administration and government, pp. 64, 141, 314
10. Chambers, John Whiteclay II, 1999), The Oxford Companion to American Military History, pp. 119, 248, 376
11. Alden, 2013, A History of the American Revolution, p. 220
12. Buchanan, 2011, 'The Road to Guilford Courthouse: The American Revolution in the Carolinas, pp. 11, 49
13. Allison & Ferrio, 2018, pp. 120, 174, 177
14. Lumpkin, 2000, From Savannah to Yorktown: The American Revolution in the South, p. 8
15. Mays, 2019, Historical Dictionary of the American Revolution, pp. 452, 553, 554, 555, 556
16. Burrows, 2008. Forgotten Patriots ..., pp. 2, 272
17. Scott, Harnish, M., 1990. British Foreign Policy in the Age of the American Revolution, pp. 20, 230, 351
18. Black, Jeremy, British Foreign Policy in an Age of Revolutions, 1783-1793, 1994, p. 185
19. Simms, Brendan, 2000, Three Victories and a Defeat: The Rise and Fall of the First British Empire, pp. 49, 595, 600, 775
20. Lecky, William Edward Hartpole, 1891, A History of England: In the Eighteenth Century, Volume 4, p. 72
21. Curtis, Edward E., 1926, The Organization Of The British Army In The American Revolution, pp. 70, 143
22. Lengal, Edward, 2005, General George Washington: A Military Life, pp. 143, 159, 209
23. Macksey, Piers, 1993, The War for America: 1775-1783, pp. 61, 72
24. McCullough, David, 2005, pp. 12, 327, 343, 351, 383
25. McGuire, Thomas J., 2011, Stop the Revolution: America in the Summer of Independence and the Conference for Peace, pp. 31, 75
26. Middlekauff, Robert, 2007, The American Revolution, 1763-1789
27. Namier & Brooke, 1985, The House of Commons, 1754-1790, pp. 130, 143
28. Savas & Dameron, 2006, A Guide to the Battles of the American Revolution, pp. 61, 68
29. Ellis, Joseph J., 2005, His Excellency: George Washington, pp. 97, 98
30. Schiff, Stacy, 2015, A Great Improvisation: Franklin, France, and the Birth of America, pp. 85, 206, 268
31. Smith, David, 2008, New York 1776: The Continentals’ First Battle, pp. 17, 21, 22
32. Freeman, Douglas Southhall, 2000. Washington, pp.282-283, 286-287
33. Smith, Merril D., 2015, The World of the American Revolution: A Daily Life Encyclopedia, pp. xix, 125, 441, 499, 608
34. Gilbert, Alan, 2000, 2012, Black Patriots and Loyalists: Fighting for Emancipation in the , p. 123
35. Lowenthal, Larry, 2009, Hell on the East River: British Prison Ships in the American Revolution, p. 25
36. Pole, Jack Richon, 1975, The Decision for American Independence, p. 54
37. Mauch , Christof, 2003, Myths—Historiography: "Hessians" in the War of Independence, pp. 411-423 – Not in Bibliography
38. Ferling, John, 2002, Setting the World Ablaze: Washington, Adams, Jefferson, and the American Revolution, pp. 130, 355
39. Ferling, John, 2003, A Leap in the Dark: The Struggle to Create the American Republic, pp. 158, 188
40. Miller, 1959. Origins of the American Revolution, pp. 53, 256, 432, 461, 477
41. Morrill, 1993. Southern Campaigns of the American Revolution, pp. 39, 56
42. Fortescue, 1902. A history of the British army, vol 3, pp. 171, 517
43. Fredriksen, 2006. Revolutionary War Almanac, pp. 348, 361, 428, 467
44. Ewald, 1979. DIARY OF THE AMERICAN WAR, p. xx – Not in Bibliography
45. Lanning, 2009. American Revolution 100: The Battles, People, and Events of the American War for Independence, pp. 95, 132, 133, 135, 136, 364

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