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Jack Fisher's Steuben's Rathskeller Orchestra will furnish the music at the annual Leverett House dance Wednesday. Dancing will take place from 9.30 till 2 o'clock in the House dining-hall...
Maier stepped up beside the Mayor for inspection. Continued Mayor Walker: "He organized the Steuben Society and is president of it.* A million people in my town have honored him on more than one occasion and think that he's a distinguished citizen. I'm not disowning him as a friend because the Seabury committee is after him. I never go back on my friends...
...This the 'Steuben Society in Manhattan denied...
...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 recruits, made soldiers. In 1781 he watched his soldiers defeat...
...bastions there in 1777. Molly Pitcher took a shot with her husband's cannon at advancing British regulars. Thaddeus Kosciusko organized and perfected the fortification in 1778. A great iron chain was forged and stretched across the river on log floats. Mad Anthony Wayne defended its position. Baron Steuben drilled our troops; Washington lived there...