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The winter was harsh but George Washington put the time to good use and trained his men. He was helped by Casimir Pulaski and Baron, Friedrich Wilhelm August Heinrich Ferdinand Steuben, and Lafayette.
To care for and get fresh horses
Foreign officers helped General Washington during the Revolutionary War, by training them to use weapons properly, and how to fight the formal battles favored by the British. Within a month, the troops were executing drills with speed and precision. Because of this, the American Army emerged from Valley Forge as a more efficient and stronger fighting machine.
George Washington was sent to the Ohio country with troops in the spring of 1754 to construct a road across the mountains. The British wanted to use the road to retake control of the Ohio River Valley.
George Washington was the first President of the United States.
Baron von Steuben was the famous Prussian Drill-Sergeant. He arrived at Valley Forge and volunteered his services to General Washington. He taught the soldiers new techniques such as effective use of the bayonet.
Most of the continental army was made up of militia until they were trained in Valley Forge.
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To train and drill his army and turn the men into regular soldiers. The way an army fights is tactics, and the tactics of the day were linear - the men lined up and faced the enemy line across the battlefield. All had muskets, which werent very accurate, and they would blaze away for a while and then one side or the other would charge at the enemy and the day would be decided with the bayonet. Keeping the line intact was complicated and the commands had to be obeyed promptly or the line would break. Going from column, as when marching along a road, into line when the enemy was encountered, was a complicated business which had to be done quickly. Washington's men knew little of these things before Valley Forge, meaning they were never a match for the British regular soldiers in a stand-up fight. After Valley Forge, in the Battle of Monmouth Courthouse, the British at first did not believe they were seeing Washington's army saying "Those are Regulars, by God!".
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