[Paal Gulli]

"...Oddly I remember learning about the Hessians when I was a kid in 1950’s America and we weren’t taught that they were good guys...."

The only Hessians who were mercenaries were the ones who defected and fought for the Colonials.

[Regulator]

Believe what you want but there is a small line in the Declaration which contradicts you:

“He is at this time transporting large Armies of foreign Mercenaries to compleat the works of death, desolation, and tyranny, already begun with circumstances of Cruelty & Perfidy scarcely paralleled in the most barbarous ages, and totally unworthy the Head of a civilized nation”

Maybe you could expand on your version of reality so that we can see where the Founders and historians like Lowell went wrong.