Foreigner's Arrival to Valley Forge an Answered Prayer; Genius at Military Training, Discipline Was Exactly What America Needed

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Historically, one of the more amusing foibles among many European "royalty" - a foible that continues to some extent even today - is that the length and grandiosity of their official names and titles are almost always in inverse proportion to the likelihood that they have any more noble lineage than you or I.

So it was with Lieutenant General Friedrich Wilhelm Ludolf Gerhard Augustin Baron von Steuben, whose claim to be a wealthy German baron was as bogus as his insistence that he had once held high rank under Frederick the Great.

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Foreigner's Arrival to Valley Forge an Answered Prayer; Genius at Military Training, Discipline Was Exactly What America Needed

Yet unlike the hundreds of other foreigners who came to America during the Revolutionary War hoping to wangle ou...

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