This month is a reminder. Two hundred and forty-seven years ago George Washington took his troops to a place to spend the winter. It was cold. The troops were wearing rags and running short of ...
Army History, No. 117 (Fall 2020), pp. 6-27 (22 pages) Benjamin H. Newcomb, “Washington’s Generals and the Decision to Quarter at Valley Forge,” Pennsylvania Magazine of History and Biography 117, no.
A recently released National Park Service report shows there were 1.9 million visitors to the Valley Forge National ...
HUNTINGTON — The brutal winter of 1777-78 at Valley Forge will be the featured topic at the Thursday, March 14, meeting of the General Andrew Chapter of the Sons of the American Revolution. The ...
In September and October of 1777, the Continental Army led by Gen. George Washington was defeated by British forces in the battles of Brandywine Creek and Germantown. As a result, the Second ...
When students of the Revolutionary War hear the words Valley Forge, they probably think of an iconic image: Gen. George Washington kneeling in the snow, surrounded by log cabins, praying for aid. The ...
Most American schoolchildren have heard the story of Valley Forge. In broad outline, it goes like this: By the winter of 1777, the Revolutionary War was in its third year. That fall the Continental ...
THUNDER OUT OF CHINA (325 pp.)—Theodore H. White & Annalee Jacoby —William Sloane Associates ($3). In hardship and tragic travail, Chungking was to modern China what Valley Forge was to revolutionary ...
Edward McKenry was born in 1753 in Rockbridge County, Virginia. In October 1777, Edward was mustered into Capt. John Steel’s Company of Col. Malcom’s Regiment of the Continental Army. Col. William ...
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