I represent Konrad Pilger. I was a corporal in the 4th Company of the 3rd Waldeck Regiment. I was born in 1753 in Bergfreiheit, Waldeck Province. My religion was Evangelical (which, in this context, means “Protestant”). The 3rd Waldeck Regiment was hired by the British from Waldeck Prince Frederick Karl Augustus to assist them in fighting the American rebels in the Revolutionary War. I sailed with the regiment to North America in 1776 as a private with 5 years’ previous experience in the Waldeck army. After two years of heavy action we were sent to Pensacola, along with the provincial loyalist forces of Maryland and Pennsylvania. I was promoted to corporal by April 1779. I was wounded in the Advanced Redoubt on May 4, 1781. I was released from the regiment in America and invalided back to Germany in December 1782.
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