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Necessary, forever necessary, to burn out false shames and smelt the heaviest ore of the body into purity. David Herbert Lawrence		Monday May 19, 2025
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A fraud not really a baron, and holding no high military rank, von Steuben was a skilled drill master who taught the American army what it needed to win the war. He once said: The genius of this nation is not in the least to be compared with the Prussians, the Austrians, or French. You say to your soldier, Do this,' and he doeth it, but I am obliged to say, 'This is the reason that you ought to do that,' and then he does it.

Friedrich Wilhelm Ludolf Gerhard Augustin Baron von Steuben

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	Friedrich Wilhelm Ludolf Gerhard Augustin Baron von Steuben
	A German volunteer, called himself Lieutenant General F. W. L.G. A. Baron von Steuben, drill master.

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A fraud not really a baron, and holding no high military rank, von Steuben was a skilled drill master who taught the American army what it needed to win the war. He once said: The genius of this nation is not in the least to be compared with the Prussians, the Austrians, or French. You say to your soldier, Do this,' and he doeth it, but I am obliged to say, 'This is the reason that you ought to do that,' and then he does it.