loyalist NEW RESPONDENT. Friederich von Steuben was a Prussian officer who offered his services to the patriots' cause. He drilled the Continental Army at Valley Forge, teaching them the modern technique of European fighting.
What he taught them was to drill with muskets,march in step, switch ranks, and to fight professionally
to drill with muskets march in step switch ranks and to fight professionally
Friedrich von Steuben died in Remsen, Oneida County, New York. He is buried in Steuben County, Indiana, USA.
The Steuben Glass Works was founded in 1903 by Frederick Carder and Thomas J. Hawkes. The name was derived from the company's location in Corning, New York, which is in Steuben County.
He was 64. Major General (Baron) Friedrich von Steuben survived the Revolutionary War and died in 1794, of an unknown illness.
Baron von Steuben was given a Congressional pension of $2500 a year and granted a confiscated Loyalist estate in New Bridge, New Jersey. He ran up a sizable debt, including repairs to what is now the historic Zabriskie-Steuben or Steuben House. He died in 1794 of unknown illness, some 11 years after the war's end.
Steuben County. Bath, New York.
The phone number of the Remsen Steuben Historical Society is: 315-831-8481.
New England Patriots
The address of the Remsen Steuben Historical Society is: Po Box 284, Remsen, NY 13438
I believe it was in New York.