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History of the Encampment

What actually happened at Valley Forge, from the march in to the march out.

The historical record of the winter encampment of 1777 to 1778: the conditions, the supply crisis, the training, the French alliance, and the army that left in the spring. Includes the contemporary accounts and the later scholarship that corrected them.

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