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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;daveydempsey, post: 4075901, member: 22&quot;]The button translates.</p><p><br /></p><p>DEVS = God</p><p>ES = Is</p><p>SPES = Hope</p><p>NOSTRA = Our</p><p><br /></p><p>God Is Our Hope</p><p><br /></p><p>These buttons were worn by Hessian (Prussian) soldiers used as mercenaries by the British during the Revolutionary War.</p><p><br /></p><p>Reproductions exist.</p><p><br /></p><p>From Wiki</p><p>Hessians were German soldiers who served as auxiliaries to the British Army during the American Revolutionary War. The term is an American synecdoche for all Germans who fought on the British side, since 65% came from the German states of Hesse-Kassel and Hesse-Hanau.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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