Inspector General Baron von Steuben: the openly gay military strategist who remade the Revolutionary Army
General Washington didn’t care about von Steuben’s private life; he was losing the war!
Baron Friedrich Wilhelm von Steuben
Photo by Charles Wilson Peale, 1780
Issue #218 American History January 10, 2023
As the new Republican House Majority outlines its priorities, one of them is to remake America’s “woke” military. Many Republicans and right-wing commentators previously stated that the United States military, the greatest and strongest in t…
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