Major General Friedrich Wilhelm von Steuben is a bronze statue, by Albert Jaegers

Albert Jaegers

Albert Jaegers was an American sculptor, who moved to Cincinnati, Ohio as a boy...

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The inscription reads:

(Base, southeast side:)

Albert Jaegers, sculptor

(Base, front in raised letters:)

ERECTED.BY.THE.CONGRESS

OF.THE.VNITED.STATES.

TO

FREDERICK.WILLIAM.AVGVSTVS.HENRY.FERDINAND

BARON.VON.STEVBEN

IN.GRATEFVL .RECOGNITION .OF.HIS

SERVICES

TO

THE

AMERICAN.PEOPLE

IN.THEIR.STRVGGLE.FOR.LIBERTY

BORN.IN PRVSSIA

SEPTEMBER 17, 1730

DIED.IN.NEW.YORK.

NOVEMBER 28, 1794

AFTER.SERVING.AS AIDE.

DE.CAMP.TO.FREDERICK

THE.GREAT.OF PRVSSIA

HE.OFFERED.HIS.SWORD

TO.THE.AMERICAN.COLONIES.AND WAS APPOINT

ED.MAJOR.GENERAL AND

INSPECTOR GENERAL IN

THE CONTINENTAL ARMY

HE GAVE MILITARY.TRAIN-

ING.AND.DISCIPLINE.TO

THE.CITIZEN.SOLDIERS

WHO.ACHIEVED.THE.IN-

DEPENDENCE.OF.THE

VNITED.STATES. .

M.C.M.X

(Base, rear in raised letters:)

COLONEL.WILLIAM.NORTH

.MAJOR.BENJAMIN.WALKER

.AIDES.AND.FRIENDS

OF.GENERA.VON.STEVBEN

(Base, beneath two male figures:)

MILITARY INSTRUCTION

(Base, beneath female figure and youth:)

COMMEMORATION