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Historical person
1730–1794
Friedrich Wilhelm von Steuben was a Prussian officer who joined the American cause in 1778 and became inspector general of the Continental Army. Friedrich Wilhelm von Steuben served as Inspector General of the Continental Army.
At Valley Forge he introduced a systematic programme of drill, camp administration and battlefield manoeuvre, adapting European military practice to the circumstances of Washington’s army. Steuben helped professionalise the Continental Army through training, regulations and administrative reform.
In Laurie Halse Anderson’s Forge, The army’s transformation under George Washington and Friedrich Wilhelm von Steuben unfolds beside Curzon’s unstable legal status. In William R. Forstchen and Newt Gingrich’s Valley Forge, Friedrich Wilhelm von Steuben introduces systematic drill and discipline, while Lafayette and other allies help sustain the revolutionary coalition.
Series
The George Washington trilogy follows the American Revolution through three moments when the independence movement could still have failed. Beginning with the desperate winter campaign of 1776, it moves through the deprivation and political strain of Valley Forge before concluding with the Franco-American victory at Yorktown. George Washington…
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The Seeds of America trilogy follows Isabel and Curzon, two young people fighting enslavement while Britain’s North American colonies fight for independence. Beginning in New York in 1776, continuing through Saratoga and the Valley Forge encampment, and ending at Yorktown in 1781, the novels connect their search for…
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