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Steuben

[ stoo-buhn, styoo-, stoo-ben, styoo-; German shtoi-buhn ]

noun

  1. Frie·drich Wil·helm Lu·dolf Ger·hard Au·gus·tin von [free, -d, r, i, kh, , vil, -helm , loo, -dawlf , geyr, -hah, r, t ou-g, oo, s-, teen, f, uh, n], 1730–94, Prussian major general in the American Revolutionary army.


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General Steuben observing the large radius of camp concluded that Cornwallis' entire force was across the river.

With the coming of Baron Steuben, the army was uniformly drilled in the tactics of European warfare.

But there came to camp, a volunteer, Baron Steuben, who had been trained in the best armies of Europe.

On his right sat Baron Steuben, our royalist republican disciplinarian general.

Congress also appointed an inspector-general, Thomas Conway being the first incumbent, being followed by Steuben.

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