Editing Pennsylvania Dutch (section)

====Pennsylvania Dutch Provost Corps====
Pennsylvania Dutch were recruited for the American [[Provost (military police)|Provost corps]] under Captain Bartholomew von Heer,<ref name=Valuska>{{cite web |last=Valuska |first=David L., Ph.D. |title=Von Heer's Provost Corps Marechausee: The Army's Military Police. An All Pennsylvania German Unit |year=2007 |publisher=The Continental Line, Inc. |url=http://www.continentalline.org/articles/article.php?date=0702&article=070201 |access-date=November 11, 2022 |archive-date=November 27, 2022 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20221127131648/http://www.continentalline.org/articles/article.php?date=0702&article=070201 |url-status=dead }}</ref><ref group=Note>"It is interesting to note that nearly all men recruited into the Provost Corps were Pennsylvania German." -[http://www.continentalline.org/articles/article.php?date=0702&article=070201   David L. Valuska] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20221127131648/http://www.continentalline.org/articles/article.php?date=0702&article=070201 |date=November 27, 2022 }}</ref> a Prussian who had served in a similar unit in Europe<ref name=Ruppert>{{cite web |url=https://allthingsliberty.com/2014/10/bartholomew-von-heer-and-marechaussee-corps/ |date=1 October 2014 |title=Bartholomew von Heer and the Marechausse Corps |last=Ruppert |first=Bob |publisher=Journal of the American Revolution |access-date=29 Aug 2019}}</ref> before immigrating to [[Reading, Pennsylvania]], prior to the war.

During the Revolutionary War the ''[[Gendarmerie|Marechaussee]]'' Corps were utilized in a variety of ways, including intelligence gathering, route security, enemy prisoner of war operations, and even combat during the [[Battle of Springfield (1780)|Battle of Springfield]].<ref name=MPRA>{{cite journal |url=http://www.mpraonline.org/wp-content/uploads/2015/06/mpra_0215lr1.pdf |title=Order of the Marechaussee |publisher=Military Police Regimental Association |location=Fort Leonard Wood |date=Spring 2015 |access-date=5 December 2015 |page=8 |volume=26 |number=2 |journal=The Dragoon |archive-date=8 December 2015 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20151208161557/http://www.mpraonline.org/wp-content/uploads/2015/06/mpra_0215lr1.pdf |url-status=dead }}</ref> The Marechausee also provided security for Washington's headquarters during the [[Siege of Yorktown|Battle of Yorktown]], acted as his security detail, and was one of the last units deactivated after the Revolutionary War.<ref name=Valuska/> The Marechaussee Corps was often not well received by the Continental Army, due in part to their defined duties but also due to the fact that some members of the corps spoke little or no English.<ref name=Ruppert /> Six of the provosts had even been [[Hessian (soldier)|Hessian]] prisoners of war prior to their recruitment.<ref name=Ruppert /> Because the provost corps completed many of the same functions as the modern U.S. [[Military Police Corps (United States)|Military Police Corps]], it is considered a predecessor of the current United States Military Police Regiment.<ref name=MPRA/>