Was Fredrick Von Steuben in the Gentry social class?
Frederick Von Steuben was born into a military family in 1730, in Magdeburg, Prussia. Early on he became a soldier and rose to the rank of captain in the Prussian army during the Seven Years War (1756-63). He was created a baron. Although this has been questioned. After he arrived in the American colonies in December 1777, Washington had Congress appoint him as inspector general of the continental army. At Valley Forge he drilled the army and remodelled it into a professional outfit. He personally drilled the soldiers in the basic principles of marching and fighting with muskets and bayonets. He fought at Monmouth and Yorktown. After the war he settled in New York City and was eventually granted a life pension.
