Frederick II was Landgrave of Hesse-Kassel from 1760 to 1785. He ruled as an enlightened despot, and raised money by renting soldiers to Great Britain to help fight the American Revolutionary War. He
Portrait by Johann Heinrich Tischbein
Hesse-Hanau
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Hesse-Hanau was a territory in the Holy Roman Empire. It emerged when the former county of Hanau-Münzenberg became a secundogeniture of Hesse-Kassel in 1760. When the reigning count, William IX, also
William, Hereditary Prince of Hesse-Cassel and Count of Hesse-Hanau.
Wilhelmsbad was built during the short sovereignty of Hesse-Hanau.