<P> In 1763 Steuben had been formally introduced to the future French Minister of War, Claude Louis, Comte de Saint - Germain in Hamburg . They met again in Paris in 1777 . The Count, fully realizing the potential of an officer with Prussian general staff training, introduced him to Benjamin Franklin . Franklin, however, was unable to offer Steuben a rank or pay in the American army . The Continental Congress had grown tired of foreign mercenaries coming to America and demanding a high rank and pay . Promoting these men over qualified American officers caused discontent in the ranks . Von Steuben would have to go to America strictly as a volunteer, and present himself to Congress . Steuben left these first meetings in disgust and returned to Prussia . Steuben found waiting for him allegations that he engaged in homosexual relationships with young men while in the service of Prince Josef Friedrich Wilhelm of Hohenzollern - Hechingen . The allegations were never proven, but Steuben knew they would stymie his chances at an officer's position in Europe . Threatened with prosecution for his alleged homosexuality, Steuben returned to Paris . Rumors followed him from Prussia to America that he was homosexual, but there never was an investigation of von Steuben and he received a Congressional pension after the war . </P> <P> Upon the Count's recommendation, Steuben was introduced to future president George Washington by means of a letter from Franklin as a "Lieutenant General in the King of Prussia's service", an exaggeration of his actual credentials that appears to be based on a mistranslation of his service record . He was advanced travel funds and left Europe from Marseilles on Friday, September 26, 1777 on board the frigate Flamand . </P> <P> The Baron, his Italian greyhound, Azor (which he took with him everywhere), his young aide de camp Louis de Pontière, his military secretary, Peter Stephen Du Ponceau (then called Pierre Etienne Du Ponceau), and two other companions, reached Portsmouth, New Hampshire on December 1, 1777, where they were almost arrested for being British because Steuben had mistakenly outfitted them in red uniforms . They were extravagantly entertained in Boston . On February 5, 1778 Steuben and his party arrived in York, Pennsylvania, where the Continental Congress had relocated after being ousted from Philadelphia by the British advance . Arrangements were made for Steuben to be paid following the successful completion of the war according to his contributions . He arrived at Valley Forge on February 23, 1778, and reported for duty as a volunteer . One soldier's first impression of the Baron was "of the ancient fabled God of War...he seemed to me a perfect personification of Mars . The trappings of his horse, the enormous holsters of his pistols, his large size, and his strikingly martial aspect, all seemed to favor the idea . He turned the volunteers into a great army" </P> <P> Washington appointed von Steuben as temporary inspector general . He went out into the camp to talk with the officers and men, inspect their huts, and scrutinize their equipment . Steuben established standards of sanitation and camp layouts that would still be standard a century and a half later . There had previously been no set arrangement of tents and huts . Men relieved themselves where they wished and when an animal died, it was stripped of its meat and the rest was left to rot where it lay . Steuben laid out a plan to have rows for command, officers and enlisted men . Kitchens and latrines were on opposite sides of the camp, with latrines downhill side . There was the familiar arrangement of company and regimental streets . </P>

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