Friedrich Wilhelm August Heinrich Ferdinand Steuben, also referred to as the Baron von Steuben, was a Prussian-born military officer who served as inspector general and Major General of the Continental Army during the American Revolutionary War.
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Baron Friedrich von Steuben came from Prussia.
Baron Friedrich von Steuben (i think that's how you spell it). He trained the American troops.
He was 64. Major General (Baron) Friedrich von Steuben survived the Revolutionary War and died in 1794, of an unknown illness.
The Baron von Steuben died in 1794 of an apparent stroke or internal haemorrhaging.
Baron von Steuben was a skilled Prussian General and contributed his knowledge of war and tactics in training the American colonial militias into a more standard army to oppose the British Army in the American Revolution.