Had the U. S. joined forces with Germany in the World War instead of with France, General Pershing's legendary remark on the arrival abroad of the A. E. F. might have been: "Von Steuben, we are here!" The Frenchman Marie Joseph Paul Yves Roch Gilbert du Motier, Marquis de la La Fayette, was of very slightly more aid to the American revolutionary cause than was the German Frederick William Augustus Henry Ferdinand, Baron von Steuben. Von Steuben, experienced Prussian officer, became in 1778 Inspector General of the Continental Army. He drilled...
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