Washington’s Continental Army’s winter camping period at Valley Forge, commonly known as just “Valley Forge”, was a period of “rest” during the Revolutionary War. Both the British and the U.S army were waiting out the winter -- except, while the British were staying in the comfort of Pennsylvania’s capital at that time, Philadelphia, Washington’s militia was suffering unimaginable hardships: freezing cold, inadequate lodgings… many soldiers were falling deathly ill. If you were a soldier, would you…
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