Friedrich Wilhelm von Lossberg was a Hessian Lieutenant General fighting with the British-allied German contingents in the American Revolutionary War. He was sent to America in 1776 as a colonel commanding the First Brigade of the Second Hessian Division under Lieutenant General Wilhelm von Knyphausen. Von Knyphausen in turn was second in command under General Leopold Philip de Heister. During the course of the war, in 1777, disagreements between General Sir William Howe and Heister led to the latter's recall, and Von Knyphausen replaced him. In May 1782, after the British surrender at the Battle of Yorktown in October 1781, Von Lossberg replaced Von Knyphausen as the last commander of the Hessian troops in North America. With the departure of Lieutenant General von Knyphausen on 15 May 1782, together with Lieutenant General Sir Henry Clinton, von Lossberg became the commander of the Hessian troops in North America while Lieutenant General Sir Guy Carleton became overall commander of the British Allied Forces. In his role von Lossberg was responsible for the repatriation of the Hessian troops remaining in America. Both Congress and the British Government offered German soldiers land if they remained in America or in Nova Scotia, and about 1/4th of the men accepted. Von Lossberg himself left New York on 16 November 1783 and arrived in Portsmouth aboard the transport ship Duchess of Gordon on 26 December 1783. He returned to Hesse and died at Hesse-Nassau on 25 June 1800.