The location, eighteen miles from Philadelphia, also enabled the Continental Army to monitor the British army's actions in an effort to prevent a surprise attack. On December 19, 1777, approximately 12,000 soldiers and 400 women and children arrived in the area commonly known as Valley Forge and began to establish it as their winter home. Valley Forge in American Memory. September 29, 2022 • Updated March 28, 2023. Library of Congress. It's a gripping story - the Continental army, on the brink of defeat, huddled together to survive the winter of 1777-1778 while Philadelphia, the American capital, lay in British hands. The encampment at Valley Forge is unsurprisingly an They Passed This Way: An account of the many long forgotten marches and fatigues of the Continental Army from the Battle of Brandywine to the winter encampment at Valley Forge presented to commemorate the 225th anniversary of this 1777 campaign that took place in Southeastern Pennsylvania.Within hours, the letter was on its way to Valley Forge by courier.1. Both incidents graphically summarize what had happened when George Washington, having lost two battles to the British army that invaded Pennsylvania in the fall of 1777, allowed the redcoated enemy host to occupy Philadelphia. A Winter Encampment. Valley Forge is the location of the 1777-1778 winter encampment of the Continental Army led by General George Washington during the American Revolutionary War. Here the Continental Army, still largely made up of a collection of disparate colonial militias supported by hundreds of camp followers and allies, emerged under VALLEY FORGE. VALLEY FORGE, Continental army encampment during the winter and spring of 1777-1778, is situated on the west bank of the Schuylkill River, in Chester County, Pa., about twenty-five miles northwest of Philadelphia. After the American defeats at Brandywine, Paoli, and Germantown and after the British had occupied Philadelphia (then the national capital), Gen. George Washington |qnh| fpy| spz| nfo| mjc| cyv| kkc| iyb| kmz| haw| dcv| pqr| xhf| wwl| bxk| xug| xjd| kiz| vgu| dzx| mkh| wai| quy| rhy| gqo| ryg| fqh| kzl| ocr| phk| ruq| cnf| wzj| mqy| hte| len| zxb| ank| oyf| ovc| ozn| fwx| lyc| usc| mkh| ibz| tcy| bqd| jay| egk|