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Von Steuben authored ‘Regulations for the Order and Discipline of the Troops of the United States’, which became the standard United States drill manual until the War of 1812. Image Credit. Birthday: September 17, 1730 ( Virgo) Born In: Magdeburg, Germany. Military Leaders #78. Leaders #303. Quick Facts.
Born into a military family in 1730—at first, his last name was the non-noble Steuben—he was 14 when he watched his father direct Prussian engineers in the 1744 siege of Prague.
Baron von Steuben by Charles Willson Peale, c. 1781-82. Friedrich Wilhelm August Heinrich Ferdinand von Steuben, German-born soldier, was born at Magdeburg, Prussia, in 1730, the son of William Augustine Steuben (1699 – 1783), also a soldier. At fourteen he served as a volunteer in a campaign of the Austrian Succession War.
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Baron Friedrich Wilhelm von Steuben. by Charles Wilson Peale, 1780n. Von Steuben was born in Magdeburg fortress where his father was an engineer lieutenant in the military in 1730. Most of his adolescent years were spent in Russia, but with his father at the age of 10, they returned to Germany. He was schooled in Breslau by Jesuits and by the ...
Baron von Steuben. Date of Birth - Death September 17, 1730 - November 28, 1794. Baron Friedrich Wilhelm Augustus von Steuben was born on September 17, 1730, in the fortress town of Magdeburg in Prussia but spent most of the first decade of his life in Russia with his father. At age 10 he returned to Germany and attended more formal schooling.
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Friedrich Wilhelm August Heinrich Ferdinand Baron de Steuben was born on September 17, 1730 in the fortress town of Magdeburg in the Kingdom of Prussia. Following in his father's footsteps, Steuben joined the Prussian Army in 1747, when he was 17 years old. In May 1756, the Seven Years War began in Europe, and Prussia and Britain were pitted ...
