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Biography
1730 - 1794
"In Europe, you say to your soldier, 'Do this' and he does it. But I am obliged to say to the American, 'This is why you ought to do this' and then he does it."
- Baron Friederich Wilhelm von Steuben in his personal diary
In 1777 the rebellion in England's colonies - destined to become the American Revolution - was going badly. Thirteen disparate and mutually suspicious colonies were not yet one unified and disciplined force. The army desperately needed training and, in Paris, Benjamin Franklin found the one man he believed could save them: Baron Friedrich Wilhelm von Steuben. von Steuben was a particularly valuable aide to the greatest military genius of his era, King Frederick II of Prussia. Because the King was Europe’s most notorious gay ruler at the time, his ready acceptance into the King’s all-male court was the first historical suggestion that von Steuben was, himself, gay. Though it is unknown whether Franklin knew of von Steuben’s gay identity, he was convinced that the Prussian penchant for order and discipline was pre
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Baron von Steuben
Baron Friedrich Wilhelm Augustus von Steuben was born on September 17, 1730, in the fortress town of Magdeburg in Prussia but spent most of the first decade of his life in Russia with his father. At age 10 he returned to Germany and attended more formal schooling. In 1747, at 17, von Steuben enlisted in the Prussian army as a lance-corporal. Von Steuben was a second lieutenant in 1756 when The Seven Years War began, and he served throughout the conflict with distinction. Von Steuben was discharged from the Prussian army at the rank of captain on April 29, 1763, shortly after the Treaties of Paris and Hubertusburg ended the war.
That same year, 1763, von Steuben met the Frenchman Louis de St. Germain in the northern German town of Hamburg. Fourteen years later, St. Germain was serving as France’s Minister of War and helped pave the way for von Steuben’s trip across the Atlantic to serve the American cause. In those intervening years, von Steuben served as Grand Marshall, a lofty title for administrative director of the court, of the Prince of Hollenzollern-Hechi
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Friedrich Wilhelm von Steuben
German-born American army officer (1730–1794)
For ships named after General von Steuben, see Von Steuben (disambiguation).
Friedrich Wilhelm von Steuben | |
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Portrait by Charles Willson Peale, 1780 | |
| Birth name | Friedrich Wilhelm August Heinrich Ferdinand von Steuben |
| Nickname(s) | Baron von Steuben |
| Born | (1729-09-17)September 17, 1729 Magdeburg, Duchy of Magdeburg, Kingdom of Prussia |
| Died | November 28, 1794(1794-11-28) (aged 64) Steuben, New York, U.S. |
| Buried | Steuben Memorial State Historic Site, Remsen, New York, U.S. |
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| Years of service | |
| Rank | Major General |
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| Awards | Cross of the Order of De la Fidelite |
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Friedrich Wilhelm August Heinrich Ferdinand von Steuben (STEW-bənorstew-BEN,[1]German:[ˈfʁiːdʁɪçˈvɪlhɛlmfɔnˈʃtɔʏbn̩]; born Friedrich Wilhelm Ludolf Gerhard Augustin Louis von Steuben; September 17, 1730 – November 28, 1794), also referred to as Baron
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