Captain johann ewald biography death

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Johann Ewald was a captain of the Hessian jager corps attached to the Leib Regiment, leading the 2nd Company under Colonel Carl von Donop for the first two years of his service in North America during the Revolutionary War. He participated in several engagements here, including the Battle for Mount Holly. In the spring of , Ewald was instrumental in the planning of the assault to take the American garrison at Bound Brook, New Jersey on April Ewald served around New York City in before being dispatched to aid in the siege and capture of Charleston, South Carolina, in May He returned to New York where he was soon attached to the Virginia expedition led by newly turned and commissioned British officer, Benedict Arnold.

He was wounded in the knee at Norfolk on March 19, He remained in New York on parole for the rest of the war and returned to Germany in April He was also a cartographer, offering several maps of his time in New Jersey. Rev War Biography. Johann Ewald. Wikimedia Commons. Title Captain. Date of Birth - Death March 20, — June 25, He later joined the Danish Army and served as a general during the Napoleonic Wars.

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