Donop

Five hundred of their brethren had fallen killed or wounded, including Donop himself, who died pathetically exclaiming, “I perish the victim of my own ambition and the avarice of my prince.”

Angel in the Whirlwind Benson Bobrick 1997

On October 21, Howe sent a detachment of 2,000 men down the New Jersey shore under German colonel Carl von Donop to subdue Fort Mercer.

Angel in the Whirlwind Benson Bobrick 1997

Five hundred of their brethren had fallen killed or wounded, including Donop himself, who died pathetically exclaiming, “I perish the victim of my own ambition and the avarice of my prince.”

Angel in the Whirlwind Benson Bobrick 1997

On October 21, Howe sent a detachment of 2,000 men down the New Jersey shore under German colonel Carl von Donop to subdue Fort Mercer.

Angel in the Whirlwind Benson Bobrick 1997

The troops assigned for this purpose were the Second British brigade and Hessians under Donop, Rall, and Lossberg, in all about four thousand men.

The Campaign of 1776 around New York and Brooklyn Henry P. Johnston

Von Donop, with two thousand men, lay only a few miles down the river.

Washington and His Comrades in Arms; a chronicle of the War of Independence George McKinnon Wrong 1904

Colonel Donop received a mortal wound, and Lieutenant-Colonel Mengerode, the second in command, fell about the same time.

Life and Times of Washington Schroeder, J. F. 1903

Late in the evening of the 22d Count Donop appeared before the fort and attacked it with great intrepidity.

Life and Times of Washington Schroeder, J. F. 1903

Henry Lee with part of his cavalry, fell in with a party of 15 chasseurs and about 100 yagers under Captain Donop, on whom they made such a rapid charge that without the loss of a man, they killed ten of them on the spot and took about twenty prisoners.

Life and Times of Washington Schroeder, J. F. 1903

Late in the autumn of 1916 I extracted out of von Donop a 9. 2-inch howitzer and mounting all complete -- he did not part readily with his goods -- so as to send them on ahead and to afford the Russians an opportunity of learning the points of this ordnance, in anticipation of the arrival of a regular consignment of the weapons which had been promised for a later date.

Experiences of a Dug-out, 1914-1918 1893