I represent Geore Giesenschlager. I was a private in the 4th Company of the 3rd Waldeck Regiment. I was born about 1747. I was Evangelical (which, in this context, means “Protestant”), and I was a shoemaker by trade. The 3rd Waldeck was hired by the British from Waldeck Prince Frederick Karl Augustus to assist them in fighting the American rebels in the Revolutionary War. We reached North America in 1776. After two years of heavy action we were sent to Pensacola, along with the provincial loyalist forces of Maryland and Pennsylvania, to help defend the town against the Spanish. I died of illness on March 30, 1780. I probably still lie in an unmarked grave in Pensacola.
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