The Continental Congress is in exile and the American Revolution appears to be lost. Their commander in chief, the focused and forceful George Washington, is at the lowest ebb of his military career. The starving and half-naked force is reeling from a string of demoralizing defeats at the hands of King George III's army, and are barely equipped to survive the coming winter. It is 18 months after the signing of the Declaration of Independence, and some 12,000 members of America's beleaguered Continental Army stagger into a small Pennsylvania encampment 23 miles northwest of British-occupied Philadelphia. One of the most inspiring - and underappreciated - chapters in American history: the story of the Continental Army's six-month transformation in Valley Forge.ĭecember 1777.
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