Word: steuben
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...until Baron von Steuben, a Prussian from the court of Frederick the Great, came to Valley Forge, did the Army have either discipline or self-respect. He was the old type of Prussian, not the new. Democratic and kindhearted, he had difficulty in impressing officers, who believed themselves above such duties, that they should both drill and care for their men. He issued regulations in which he said: "His [the officer's] first object should be to gain the love of his men by treating them with every possible kindness and humanity...
...spoke of the educational debt America owes to Germany for the work of American students in German universities, the debt the nation owes to those German immigrants who form so considerable a part of its population, and the military debt to Germany for the services of Baron von Steuben in the Revolutionary war. Major Higginson closed by tendering to Prince Henry the greetings of all present, and then led a Harvard cheer for Emperor William...