Hinrichs, Johann von

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Hinrichs, Johann Von

HINRICHS, JOHANN VON. (c.1750–1834). Hessian officer. Arriving with the first contingent of German troops to America in 1776, he served as a jäger lieutenant until promoted to captain in early 1778. He received a severe chest wound after the British occupied New York City and was wounded several other times. In the Charleston operations of 1780 he was actively engaged and left an important historical record in his diary. Although he was schooled as an engineer and distinguished himself during the Revolution as a jäger, he transferred to the infantry in 1784. Soon thereafter he entered the Prussian service, was raised to the nobility, and died in 1834 as a lieutenant general.

SEE ALSO Jägers; Jungkenn, Friedrich Christian Arnold.

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