Existing comment:
"A great number of French officers were in the action... showed so much bravery... in general behaved extremely well."
-- Newspaper account of the Battle of Brandywine, 1777
* Initial distrust of French volunteers: "So many spies in our camp" (Nathanael Greene, May 1777)
* Battle of Brandywine proved their trial by fire
* After that, foreign soldiers openly accepted
* Greene later relied on Steuben and Lafayette in Southern campaign |