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| | Gaskins's Virginia Battalion |
 | | Steuben expressed initial gratitude for a timely contribution to his forces, but was surprised to find that the “recruit was a mere boy whose shoes had somehow exaggerated his height.” Trembling with rage, Steuben asked the colonel, “Sir,....you think me a rascal?” “Oh, no, Baron, I don’t,” replied the colonel. |
 | | The Steuben division was in the trenches again on the 14th, the night that a party from Lafayette's division led by Alexander Hamilton attacked and captured British redoubts 9 and 10. |
 | | Steuben to Lafayette, 6/13/81, Lafayette 4:182-83; Palmer, General Von Steuben, 282; Priederick Kapp, The Life of Frederick William Von Steuben (New York: Mason Brothers, 1859), 451-52; Lafayette to Steuben, 6/13/81, Lafayette 4:179; Palmer, General Von 9teuben, 285-86. |
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