I represent Johann Henrich Stierlein. I was an Adjutant Lieutenant of the 3rd Waldeck Regiment. I was born in Stuttgart. 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 went with the Regiment to North America in 1776 as an ensign and adjutant on the staff. After two years of heavy action we were sent to Pensacola, along with the provincial loyalist forces of Maryland and Pennsylvania. In early January 1781, a few months after the Spanish had captured Mobile, General Campbell sent a group of Waldeckers, Maryland and Pennsylvania Loyalists, and indigenous warriors to The Village (on the eastern shore near the head of Mobile Bay) in an attempted counterattack against the Spanish. The attack came on January 7, 1781 and ended in defeat. We retreated back to Pensacola. The attempt was not without loss of life, including the Waldeck commander, and myself.
Sources: 26, 54