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Thousands of British and Hessian soldiers flanked the Marylanders. Few Americans would survive. Cornwallis’s men trained a light cannon and musket fire on the advancing Marylanders, who mounted ...

The style owes its conception to its military boot predecessors, known as 'Hessians', which were worn by the British Army in the late 18th century. The Duke of Wellington is credited with ...