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Show Fought With Hessians. An ancestor of Count von Bernstorff, the dismissed German ambassador, fought against America in our war for freedom. The fact is brought out by a pas.sage in the "Souvenirs du Chevalier Che-valier do Cussy." Among the acquaintances acquain-tances m:ide by the chevalier in 1S20, when ho joined the staff of the French embassy in Berlin, was the court chamberlain, Count von Bernstorff, grandfather of the former ambassador. ambassa-dor. "Countess Bernstorff," wrote De Cussy, "bears a singular forename, 'America.' This was bestowed on her because she was born in that country during the war of independence. Her father was in command of one of the regiments hired out to the English by the elector of Hesse." |