Valley Forge

What the Ground Remembers

People arrive expecting something dramatic — a battlefield, maybe, with monuments and cannon placements. What they find is quiet rolling hills, open fields, and a few rows of reconstructed log huts. T...

The Prussian Who Taught Americans to Fight

Friedrich Wilhelm von Steuben

Friedrich von Steuben arrived at Valley Forge claiming to be a Prussian lieutenant general. He was actually a former captain who had been dismissed from the Prussian army years earlier. Benjamin Frank...