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Oh yeah. That guy was sick according to Drunk History.
lmao actually very accurate for being inebriated.
He was kicked out of a minor German state for being gay (Prussia he left because they were downsizing their army and that killed his military career - Prussia's king at the time was actually gay as well), and the American soldiers were actually very impressed from the very start when Von Steuben showed up - he was this big, imposing, well-fed military man in a fine uniform and a booming voice, and with a massive horse and a brace of pistols on his belt, and they were all a bunch of scruffy, starving militia. One of the American officers said Von Steuben looked like Mars himself, the god of war, to the suffering American troops.