Browsing named entities in George Bancroft, History of the United States from the Discovery of the American Continent, Vol. 8. You can also browse the collection for April 20th or search for April 20th in all documents.

Your search returned 1 result in 1 document section:

George Bancroft, History of the United States from the Discovery of the American Continent, Vol. 8, Chapter 57: (search)
ment, and your laudable endeavors, my Lord, be granted by the most happiest issue. For a few months it was doubted if the prince of Waldeck could make good his offers; for his land was already overtasked, as there were three Waldeck regiments in the service of Holland: the states of the principality had complained of the loss of its subjects; but the prince still pleaded such most disinterested zeal, and vowed so warm an attachment to the incomparable monarch of Britain, that on the twentieth of April, the treaty with him was closed. He had no way of getting troops except by force, or authority, or deceit; but the village ministers from the pulpit encouraged the enlistment; and it was thought that an effective regiment would soon be ready, provided in the formation of it he should not be too tender of his own subjects. The conscripts were quieted by promises of great wealth: but to prevent their deserting, a corps of mounted forest chasseurs escorted them to Beverungen. The rul