Want to create an interactive transcript for this episode?
Podcast: A Better Peace: The War Room Podcast
Episode: BUILDING THE CONTINENTAL ARMY: VON STEUBEN'S 'BLUE BOOK' (DUSTY SHELVES)
Description: [VON STEUBEN] WAS THE RIGHT MAN AT THE RIGHT PLACE AND THE RIGHT TIME.
In the next installment of in our Dusty Shelves series, "Building the Continental Army: Von Steuben's 'Blue Book'," Jack Giblin and Jacqueline E. Whitt tell the story behind the Continental Army's first training manual. Baron Friedrich Wilhelm von Steuben was a Prussian Army officer who volunteered to come to the American colonies and serve as inspector general for the Continental Army. His book, entitled Regulations for the Order and Discipline of the Troops of the United States would become the standard U.S. Army drill manual...