Painting depicting Baron von Steuben (Friedrich Wilhelm Ludolf Gerhard Augustin von Steuben (1730-1794)) drilling American recruits at Valley Forge in 1778. Baron von Steuben was a Prussian aristocrat ...

In 1863, Utica became the fifth city in the United States to have street car service – after New York City, Philadelphia, Boston and New Orleans. The horse-drawn trolley cars ran along Genesee Street ...

LAGHMAN PROVINCE, Afghanistan -- In Sept.1777, Prussian Maj. Gen. Friedrich Von Steuben, or more commonly, Baron von Steuben, arrived in Portsmouth, N.H. His job was simple: form a model company of ...

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Von Steuben returned to Paris, and Franklin had a choice here — and he decided von Steuben’s expertise was more important to the colonies than his sexuality. While it can be debated how much a part ...

Save Outdoor Sculpture, District of Columbia survey, 1993. Goode, James M., "The Outdoor Sculpture of Washington, D.C., A Comprehensive Historical Guide," Washington ...

Baron von Steuben — longtime Prussian soldier in the powerful, disciplined, victorious army of Frederick the Great — arrives in Portsmouth, New Hampshire, from France aboard the 28-gun French frigate, ...