Match the following items.
1. settlement by agreeing each give up part of his or her demands gage
2. soldiers paid to fight for someone hessians
3. german soldiers fighting in the revolutionary war fort ticonderoga
4. british general compromise
5. captured by ethan allen's army mercenaries

the lachish letters were written by hoshaiah, a military officer stationed possibly in mareshah,   and sent to yaush, possibly the commanding officer at lachish.

the series of letters were written in carbon ink in ancient hebrew on clay ostraca, shortly before lachish fell to the babylonian army of king nebuchadnezzar in 588/6 bc during the reign of zedekiah, king of judah.