valley+forge

[|story of valley forge]

Near naked soldiers wrapped in thin blankets huddled around a smoky fire of green wood, all chanting ," We want meat," We want meat". No battle was fought at Valley Forge. They were there because it was very cold that winter and no one could move they were so cold. Yet, it was the turning point of the Revolutionary War. Raw weather stung and numbed the soldiers. But by February the weather eased somewhat. On June 19, 1778, exactly six months after they Americans arrived, a new army anxious to fight the British streamed out of Valley Forge toward New Jersey. They had been transformed from Rebels into a Mature Army.