<P> In the earlier part of the war, the U.S. used the bayonet mostly as a cooking skewer or tool rather than as a fighting instrument . Steuben's introduction of effective bayonet charges became crucial . In the Battle of Stony Point, U.S. soldiers attacked with unloaded muskets and won the battle solely on Steuben's bayonet training . </P> <P> The first results of Steuben's training were in evidence at the Battle of Barren Hill, May 20, 1778 and then again at the Battle of Monmouth in June 1778 . Steuben, by then serving in Washington's headquarters, was the first to determine that the enemy was heading for Monmouth . </P> <P> During the winter of 1778--1779, Steuben prepared Regulations for the Order and Discipline of the Troops of the United States, commonly known as the "Blue Book". Its basis was the training plan he had devised at Valley Forge . It was used by the United States Army until 1814, and affected U.S. drills and tactics until the Mexican War of 1846 . </P> <P> In 1780 Steuben sat on the court - martial of the British Army officer Major John André, captured and charged with espionage in conjunction with the defection of General Benedict Arnold . He later traveled with Nathanael Greene, the new commander of the Southern campaign . He quartered in Virginia since U.S. supplies and soldiers would be provided to the army from there . Steuben would help in the defense of Virginia with approximately 1000 militia fighting a delaying action in the Battle of Blandford . During the spring of 1781, he aided Greene in the campaign in the south, culminating in the delivery of 450 Virginia Continentals to Lafayette in June . </P>

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