1。弗里德里希·冯·施托伊本，维基上是：Friedrich von Steuben。就是帮华盛顿练兵那个，O版那边网上有没有更细致的关于他的东西？此人来之前大陆军的战绩和之后的战绩比差得有些多……法国那个阶段的外援又有哪些？是否有比较权威的数字？在我的印象里，“萨拉托加大捷”英国人败得比较惨，但那时侯法国还没参战吧？
Friedrich Wilhelm von Steuben (November 15, 1730 – November 28, 1794) was a Prussian army officer who served as inspector general and Major general of the Continental Army during the American Revolutionary War. He is credited with teaching the Continental Army the essentials of military drill and discipline, helping to guide it to victory. He wrote the Revolutionary War Drill Manual, the book that became the standard United States drill manual until the War of 1812, and served as General George Washington's chief of staff in the final years of the war.
Friedrich von Steuben was born in Magdeburg, Duchy of Magdeburg, within today's Germany, the son of Wilhelm Augustin Steuben (1699-1783), a lieutenant of engineers. His mother was Elizabeth von Jagvodin. Steuben accompanied his father to the Russian Empire when Friedrich Wilhelm I, King of Prussia and Elector of Brandenburg, ordered Wilhelm into the service of Czarina Anna I. The family returned to Prussia after the accession of Frederick the Great to the throne in 1740.
这个哥们生于德国， 是一个工兵尉官的儿子。他和他爹都参与过普鲁士和俄国的战争。
Steuben was schooled in Breslau by Jesuits and, by the age of 17, was a officer in the Prussian military. During the Seven Years' War he was a member of an infantry unit but served primarily as a staff officer. By 1761 he had risen to the rank of captain and was serving in the Prussian general headquarters. The army was greatly reduced in size at the end of the war, and Steuben was one of many Prussian officers suddenly without work. His Prussian military career would later be exaggerated—he was not one of Frederick the Great's generals—but his experience on a professional general staff, an agency then practically unknown outside of Prussia, would prove to be valuable in his American career.
