New York. Knyphausen returned to Europe, having, as he said, achieved neither glory nor advancement, but near the end of his life he became military governor of Cassel. He was a taciturn and discreet officer, who understood the temper of his troops and rarely entered on hazardous exploits. His was a hireling army of recruits gathered from work-houses and by impressment, drilled in the use of arms on shipboard. As he frequently declared, on such forces a judicious commander could place little reliance; they dwindled less by death than by desertion. In 1785, shortly after the end of the war, General Lafayette travelled to Cassel and met Knyphausen. He wrote to General Washington that they had reminisced about the war and exchanged compliments. Knyphausen died in 1800 as the result of an eye surgery. Legacy Fort Hill Park in Staten Island, New York is the site of what was once called Fort Knyphausen, an earthen redoubt built to fend off Patriot forces. One of the streets of Glasgow, Delaware is called North General Knyphausen Court. See also Germans in the American Revolution Notes References (Reprint: Kessinger, 2010, ) Note: Considered by modern scholars to be the very inaccurate work of an amateur historian. Attribution Further reading Bernhard von Poten, 'Knyphausen, Wilhelm, Reichsfreiherr zu Innhausen und' in Allgemeine Deutsche Biographie, vol. 16 (Duncker & Humblot, Leipzig 1882), pp. 343–345 1716 births 1800 deaths 18th-century German people Personnel of German units of the American Revolutionary War Barons of the Holy Roman Empire Lower Saxon nobility Hessian nobility People from Aurich (district) Military personnel from Lower Saxony