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Duer, William North, William Walker, Benjamin

Baron Friedrich Von Steuben was an officer in the French military but was sent to America to help Washington organize the army. He served under Washington at Valley Forge, rose to the position of Inspector-General of the Continental Army in 1778 and wrote the drill manual adopted by the Continental Army.

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Translation

The translations and transcriptions were provided by John A. Gallucci (professor of French at Colgate University) and students in French 292, New York/New France, Spring Semester 2005 at Hamilton College. Final Report

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Credits

"I wish to thank Randall Ericson, Couper Librarian, Hamilton College, for his help and support for this project; Peter Macdonald, Library Information Systems Specialist, who created the images of the original letters; Katherine Collett, Archivist, was generous with her advice and time, and deciphered several difficult cases of the Baron's handwriting." John A. Gallucci, Associate Professor of French, Colgate University, and directory of the Baron Steuben letters project.

• General von Steuben, by John McCauley Palmer (New Haven, Conn.: Yale University Press, 1937)

• The life of Frederick William von Stueben, by Frederich Kapp (New York: Mason Bros., 1859)

• Lives of Baron Steuben, Sebastian Cabot, and William Eaton, edited by Jarred Sparks (New York: Harper and Brothers, 1844)

• Steuben: the Baron and the town, edited by Mary Helen Eppright Jones and Lorena Start Jersen (Remsen, New York: The Remsen-Steuben Historical Society, 1994), 395 p.

Katherine Collett, Archivist
E-mail: askarch@hamilton.edu
Telephone: (315) 859-4471

Hamilton College Archives
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