sentences:  As was the practice at that time, Mazzei rented his home, in this instance to the Hessian cavalry officer Friedrich Adolf Riedesel, a prisoner of war who had been captured at Saratoga and was imprisoned in the Charlottesville barracks.Riedesel moved his entire staff up to Mazzei's home and turned their horses out to pasture in the infant vineyards.The vineyards were destroyed.