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Valley Forge
Valley Forge, located 25 miles (40 km) northwest of Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, is a famous site from the American Revolutionary War. It is the place where General George Washington quartered his Continental Army during the winter of 1777–1778. Despite being cold, hungry and short of supplies, the troops drilled and practiced and came out of the winter as skilled soldiers, ready to meet the British Army.
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Both Valley Forge and Gettysburg are in Pennsylvania. However, Valley Forge was the location of a 6-month long training encampment and there was not a battle fought at the location.
Why did soldiers go to Valley Forge?
They were at Valley Forge because Pennsylvania was just captured so Valley Forge was a place to recuperate. It also had great strategical position.
There was not a battle at Valley Forge. Valley Forge was where Washington stayed with his men to train them.
Why are there so many deer at Valley Forge park in PA?
== == * Because well meaning humans fooled around with the balance of nature. Just like Yellow Stone National park there was an over abundance of wolves, so instead of relocating packs of wolves they eliminated so many that the deer were too plentiful and were destroying the ash trees which in turn caused marshland. Also these deer would go to the river and where there was once reeds along the riverbed there was nothing. Forestry found old photos of what Yellowstone looked like in past decades and came to the realization that once again humans had to go "oops" and introduced more wolves back into the park.
How did people die at Valley Forge?
There wasn't a battle, but the winter camp of Washington and his troops.Many went home to take care of the family farm. There were so many they were called "sunshine patriots". The colonies were 95% farmers. In Valley Forge there is a fable about the men starving, not having shoes, and in the cold. This is not true. Federal park historians have found that they were well fed, clothed, and in warm huts. The officer wives joined their husbands. Washington in his letters to Congress couldn't admit this because he knew they would cut funds. So, he spun a story. The 10,000 man army was supplied each month with a million pounds of flour, a million pounds of meat and fish. Each man was allotted more than 3 pounds of flour, meat, and fish per day.
