HISTORIC NEW YORK - Steuben Memorial
Posted by: YoSam.
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German military man, who wrote the manual of military discipline.
Waymark Code: WM44BT
Location: New York, United States
Date Posted: 07/05/2008
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Location of Marker: I-90, NY Thruway, Oneida east bound service area, Westmoreland.
Marker Text:
HISTORIC NEW YORK
STEUBEN MEMORIAL
(Three miles northwest of Remsen, Oneida County)
Home and grave of Baron Frederick William von Steuben
(1730 - 1794)
DRILLMASTER OF THE AMERICAN REVOLUTION
Arriving at Valley Forge in February, 1778, this German-born officer found "an army of skeletons...naked, starved, sick, discouraged," ~ and undisciplined. By day he drilled them for the victorious campaigns of that summer. By candlelight he wrote a MANUEL OF ARMS which is still the basis for the discipline of our armed forces.
"His services were indispensable to the achievement of American Independence."