“I do not seek any rank or pay … but only wish to join the American army as a volunteer and to serve your commander-in-chief, General George Washington,” says Baron von Steuben to members of a ...

In December 1777, at the urging of the French minister of war, Baron Frederick Wilhelm von Steuben came to America and offered his services to Gen. George Washington. Washington, then at Valley Forge ...

At about 9 on a bitter cold morning at Valley Forge, General George Washington rides out of his headquarters to greet the former Prussian soldier who has been assigned to drill Washington’s hungry, ...

New York panel connects Revolutionary War inspector general to today's corruption busters, urging independence and public ...

Painting depicting Baron von Steuben (Friedrich Wilhelm Ludolf Gerhard Augustin von Steuben (1730-1794)) drilling American recruits at Valley Forge in 1778. Baron von Steuben was a Prussian aristocrat ...

Lockhart, professor of history at Wright State University, has written the first modern scholarly biography of one of the American Revolution’s iconic figures. Friedrich von Steuben is regularly ...