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The Baron Who Was Mars Personified

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Baron Friedrich Wilhelm August Heinrich Ferdinand von Steuben was an openly gay Prussian general. He whipped a ragged gaggle of disheartened and defeated colonial men into soldiers with the cohesion and discipline needed to win. Steuben wrote in French, and his secretary translated into English, with help from Alexander Hamilton.

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The Baron Who Was Mars Personified

If grammar school coverage of the Revolutionary War was dull to you, clearly no one mentioned Baron Friedrich Wilhelm August Heinrich Ferdinand von Steuben, the dashing and openly gay Prussian general who whipped a ragged gaggle of disheartened and defeated colonial men into soldiers with the cohesion and discipline needed to win. Born in Magdeburg, Prussia, Holy Roman Empire on September 17, 1730, von Steuben attended military schools and then …

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