Valley Forge /

December 1777. It is 18 months after the signing of the Declaration of Independence, and some 12,000 members of America's beleaguered Continental Army stagger into a small Pennsylvania encampment 23 miles northwest of British-occupied Philadelphia. The starving and half-naked force is reeling f...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Authors:	Drury, Bob (Author), Clavin, Thomas (Author)
Format:	Book
Language:	English
Published:	New York : Simon & Schuster, [2018]
Subjects:	Washington, George, > 1732-1799 > Headquarters > Pennsylvania > Valley Forge. United States > History > Revolution, 1775-1783 > Campaigns. Valley Forge (Pa.) > History. HISTORY / United States / Revolutionary Period (1775-1800) HISTORY / Military / United States. HISTORY / North America.

Table of Contents:

A sprig of green
To crown the brave
The French connection
Burned forges
Fix bayonets
A perfect scribe
A bloody day
The idealist
An eerie foreboding
Blood on the Delaware
The relics of an army
Chaos in the east
Trenton redux?
Starve, dissolve, or disperse
The best answer to calumny
Integration
Firecakes and cold water
Civil war
An American army
"Howe's players"
Franklin's miracle
"Those dear raggedy Continentals"
The political maestro
Martha
Prussian spring
The rains never cease
A trim reckoning
A rumor of war
"Long live the king of France"
The modern Cato
Knights and fair maidens
The gauntlet thrown
"You damned poltroon"
"So superb a man."