In December 1777, at the urging of the French minister of war, Baron Frederick Wilhelm von Steuben came to America and ...

“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 ...

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, ...

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 ...