What we know
-
Though degraded by sitting in wet soil for nearly 250 years, the remains still have given scientists key information about the Hessians.
What we know
What we know
Age and gender: Researchers who examined the bone fragments and teeth have determined that the soldiers were fairly robust white men of European descent, all young to middle-aged adults.
Historical analysis: The project’s historian is combing through Hessian records in an attempt to identify one or more of the soldiers, a painstaking process. Both the von Mirbach battalion and the von Minnegerode battalion of grenadiers took heavy casualties in the area where the remains were discovered.
