Benjamin Walker was a Continental Army officer, businessman, and politician who served in the American Revolutionary War and later served as a United States representative from New York.
General George Washington Resigning His Commission by John Trumbull. Walker stands directly behind Washington.
Friedrich Wilhelm August Heinrich Ferdinand Freiherr von Steuben, often referred to in English as Baron von Steuben, was a Prussian-born army officer who played a leading role in the American Revoluti
Benjamin Walker (Continental Army officer)
…appointed as Captain of the Second New York Regiment in the Revolutionary War. On the 25th of April, 1778, he was appointed as an aide-de-camp to General Friedrich Wilhelm von Steuben. Walker's fluency in French is what brought him to the attention of Baron von Steuben. Steuben's limited English at times frustrated his attempts to…
Portrait by Ralph Earl, c. 1786
![Portrait by Charles Willson Peale, c. 1780]](https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/c/cd/Baron_Steuben_by_Peale%2C_1780.jpg/500px-Baron_Steuben_by_Peale%2C_1780.jpg)
Portrait by Charles Willson Peale, c. 1780]
The Steuben Statue in Valley Forge National Historical Park
Mount Gulian, Fishkill, NY