Heister, Leopold Philip de
BIRTH
Apr 4, 1716
Homberg, Germany
DEATH
November 19, 1777
Kassel, Germany
FAMILY
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Heister, Leopold Philip de
(1716-1777)
Leopold Philip de Heister was the first senior commander of the Hessian forces sent to support Britain during the American Revolution. He led German troops in the New York campaign, including the Battle of Long Island, before being recalled in 1777.
Heister, Leopold Philip de was born on Apr 4, 1716 in Homberg, Germany. The surviving biographical summary provides only limited evidence about childhood, schooling, and the daily circumstances of the household, so those details are not reconstructed here without documentation. What can be stated securely is that this person belonged to the interconnected family world from which HistoryGPS traces participants, relatives, and later descendants of the Revolutionary generation.
The available biographical record identifies Heister, Leopold Philip de with work or public activity as a soldier. Those roles provide the clearest documented basis for including this person in the database and should be read in the political, military, professional, or household context of the period. Heister, Leopold Philip de died on Nov 19, 1777 in Kassel, Germany. Additional claims about employment, public service, or accomplishments have been omitted where the consulted source did not support them.