animaljamissofab animaljamissofab 23-11-2018 History contestada Who was Baron Friedrich von Steuben? the Hessian commander of British troops in the South who lost the battle at Yorktown the Frenchman who became a general on Washington's staff and his lifelong friend a former Prussian captain who turned a disorderly group of American recruits into skilled soldiers a young German officer on Washington's staff who captured a British fort during the battle at Yorktown