Max Von Eelking was a captain in the Saxon-Meiningen Army and
corresponding member of the Historical Society of New York. In
1863, he published (in Hanover, Germany) a large two-volume history
of the activities of the various German regiments that fought for
the British in the American Revolution. The present volume is a
translation and abridgement of that work and was first published in
New York in 1893 by J. D. Rosengarten. This interesting history is
based on about thirty German manuscript sources-journals, diaries,
letters and reports-compiled by officers and enlisted men who
served in the German regiments from Hesse, Brunswick, Waldeck,
Ansbach-Bayreuth, and Anhalt-Zerbst. It provides a unique view of
the German participation as recorded by the German soldiers
themselves. The abridgement done by Rosengarten consisted mainly of
eliminating the general history of the American Revolution which is
well known to Americans, so that the volume now consists
predominantly of material on the German participation. Appended to
the historical text is a list of several hundred officers who
served in the German regiments. The antiquarian, Larned, described
this book as "the best source of information in the field..."
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