Baron von Steuben

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4.8 • 644 Ratings

🗓️ 14 January 2018

⏱️ 68 minutes

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Today we're talking about Baron von Steuben, who served in the American army during the Revolutionary War, and over the winter of 1777-1778 turned them from a mismatched bunch of volunteers into a group of professional soldiers. Join us for flaming shots, daring escapes from the British, and an important discussion of Steuben's role as Alexander Hamilton's gay dad. Transcript available here.

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0:00.0	Hello and welcome to Queer As Fact. I'm Alice. I'm Irene. And I'm Jessie. Hi. We're a queer
0:05.6	history podcast coming out on the first and the 15th of each month, talking about people,
0:09.8	places and topics in queer history from around the world and throughout time. Before we begin,
0:15.0	we just have a quick announcement for you all. Hamish has decided to move on from this podcast
0:18.7	to other things. That won't affect our regular scheduling and and me, Irene and Eli will still be here to bring you your twice-monthly episodes.
0:27.2	It does mean you might be hearing more new voices on our podcast.
0:30.9	So today we have Jessie joining us.
0:33.0	Thank you, Jesse.
0:33.9	Hi, thank you so much for having me.
0:35.6	This is properly exciting.
0:37.7	Today I'll be talking to about Baron von Steuben. you, Jessie. Hi, thank you so much for having me. This is properly exciting. Aw.
0:39.0	Today I'll be talking to you about Baron von Steuben, a Prussian-born soldier who has been
0:43.8	called the Father of the American Army.
0:46.0	Stroben was suggested to us by a couple of people on Tumblr, an anonymous request,
0:49.6	and one from 22-degree halo.
0:52.7	So thank you for bringing him to our attention.
0:54.8	He's been a lot of fun to research.
1:04.0	Before we get started, just a couple of content warnings for this episode.
1:07.3	This episode takes place during the American Revolutionary War with everything that an 18th
1:12.2	century war includes. There are also some discussions of pedophilia and there's one use of a homophobic
1:18.8	slur in a quotation. So if any of that sounds like something you don't want to hear, feel free to
1:22.9	check out any of our other episodes. We have content wanted at the start of all of them.
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