Heinrich von Breymann

German army officer

Seven Years' War
American War of Independence
- Battle of Bennington
- Battle of Bemis Heights †

Friedrich Heinrich Christoph Breymann (c. 1725 – 7 October 1777) was a senior officer of Brunswick–Luneburg troops who commanded grenadiers in the Northern Theater of the American War of Independence.

American War of Independence

Under the command of British Army officer General John Burgoyne, Breymann fought in the Battle of Bennington and the Battle of Bemis Heights. On 7 October 1777, Breymann's unit was driven behind a redoubt by American troops; he grew frustrated with his own men and began attacking four soldiers with his sabre before Breymann was shot and killed by one of them.^[1]^[2]

References

^ Mintz, Max M. The Generals of Saratoga: John Burgoyne & Horatio Gates. Binghamton: Yale University Press, 1990. p. 211: "[...] The Americans mounted the parapet and found the Germans fled and Breymann lying dead. Maddened at the timidity of his men, he had sabred four of them, and then one of them had shot him."
^ Higginbotham, Don (1961). Daniel Morgan: Revolutionary Rifleman. University of North Carolina Press, p. 75.