Genglers in the American Revolution --- On the British Side

There is an intriguing historical fact regarding the coming of two European Genglers 
to the United States. During the Revolutionary War the British hired about 30,000 
German mercenary soldiers to help them fight the Americans in the Colonies. The 
Prince of Hessen-Kassel recruited the majority (about 17,000) of the soldiers, 
although these soldiers were not necessarily born in Hessen-Kassel. The mercenaries 
were called "Hessians" even though about 13,000 of the total of 17,000 soldiers were 
recruited 
from elsewhere. It was the policy of Hessen-Kassel that their Army officers were to 
recruit "foreigners" rather than Germans from their own province. That way they
would leave as many able-bodied men as possible in the province to respond to any 
emergency
 while the contracted "Hessians" fought their far-away war.

Among these so-called Hessian soldiers was a Private Henrich (Heinrich) GENGLER, 
born in 1749-1750 who was recruited into the mercenary Hessen-Kassel army which 
fought on the side of the British in the Revolutionary War. This Heinrich Gengler is 
listed in "Hessische Truppen im Amerikanischen Unabhaengigkeitskrieg  (HETRINA)," 
Vol. IV, as having been recruited in Weyer, "Germany." He died in America in 1782, 
during the war. 

Also listed, as a member of that same Hessian mercenary army, is Peter GENGLER, 
born 1741-1742 who also enlisted in Weyer, in September of 1777. He served as a 
private in the von Stein Garrison Regiment. Hessian regiments are usually named 
after their Chef or chief officer. The chief officer was sometimes a Colonel, a typical 
rank for the Chef. Many times, however, the leader was a prince or other royal family 
member or member of the aristocracy. The von Stein Regiment sailed to America 
with Lieutenant General Wilhelm VON KNYPHAUSEN who commanded the Second 
Division of Hessians. VON KNYPHAUSEN and his division of 3,997 Hessian soldiers 
left Kassel, Germany in early May 1776. They fought several battles, to include those 
at Fort Washington and Brandywine. Peter was captured and became a prisoner of 
war of the revolutionary American Colonists sometime before 1782. He was later 
released and returned to Europe with the remainder of the defeated Hessian Army 
on 25 November 1783. Research regarding the place of enlistment of the two Genglers 
revealed the fact that there was no town named Weyer in Germany. Heinrich and 
Peter were actually from Weyer, Luxembourg, about 15 kilometers (10 miles) from 
Nospelt, Luxembourg that was the home of the Falter branch of the Genglers in 
Europe. This raises two intriguing questions: 

--- Could Heinrich and Peter be relatives to our Peter Gengler who immigrated 
to America in 1845? 
--- Could Peter, the ex-prisoner of war of the Americans have influenced Al 
Falter's Gengler ancestors to emigrate from Luxembourg to America?

Both  certainly appear possible.