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- Label
- Valley Forge
- Statement of responsibility
- Bob Drury and Tom Clavin
- Subject
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- trueCommand of troops
- trueDefeat (Military science)
- trueDetermination in men
- trueGenerals
- HISTORY / Military / United States
- HISTORY / North America
- HISTORY / United States / Revolutionary Period (1775-1800)
- History
- 1775-1783
- American Revolution (1775-1783)
- trueAmerican Revolution, 1775-1783
- Armed Forces -- Headquarters
- United States
- trueUnited States -- History -- Revolution, 1775-1783 -- Campaigns
- Valley Forge (Pa.) -- History
- trueValley Forge, Pennsylvania -- History -- Revolution, 1775-1783
- Washington, George, 1732-1799
- Washington, George, 1732-1799 -- Headquarters -- Pennsylvania | Valley Forge
- Military campaigns
- trueMilitary campaigns
- trueMilitary discipline
- trueMilitary history -- 18th century
- Pennsylvania -- Valley Forge
- Language
- eng
- Summary
- "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 from a string of demoralizing defeats at the hands of King George III's army, and are barely equipped to survive the coming winter. Their commander in chief, the focused and forceful George Washington, is at the lowest ebb of his military career. The Continental Congress is in exile and the American Revolution appears to be lost. Yet a spark remains. Determined to keep the rebel cause alive through sheer force of will, Washington transforms the farmland plateau hard by the Schuylkill River into a virtual cabin city. Together with a dedicated coterie of advisers both foreign and domestic--Marquis de Lafayette, Baron von Steuben, the impossibly young Alexander Hamilton, and John Laurens--he sets out to breathe new life into his military force. Against all odds, as the frigid and miserable months pass, they manage to turn a bobtail army of citizen soldiers into a professional fighting force that will change the world forever. [This book] is the story of how that metamorphosis occurred, despite thousands of American soldiers succumbing to disease, starvation, and the elements. Here is Steuben, throwing himself into the dedicated drilling sessions he imported from Prussian battlefields. Here is Hamilton, proffering the shrewd advice that wards off his beloved commander in chief's scheming political rivals. Here is Laurens, determined to integrate the Continental Army with freed black men and slaves. Here is Lafayette, thirsting for battlefield accolades while tenaciously lobbying his own king for crucial French aid. At the center of it all is George Washington, in the prime of his life yet confronting crushing failure as he fends off political conspiracies every bit as pernicious as his incessant military challenges. The Virginia planter-turned-general is viewed by many as unqualified to lead the Continental Army after the humiliating loss of Philadelphia, and his detractors in and out of Congress plot to replace him. The Valley Forge winter is his--and the revolution's--last chance at redemption. And, indeed, after six months in the camp, Washington fulfills his destiny, leading the Continental Army to a stunning victory in the Battle of Monmouth Court House. The momentum is never again with the Redcoats. Valley Forge is the riveting true story of a nascent United States toppling an empire. Using new and rarely seen contemporaneous documents--and drawing on a cast of iconic characters and remarkable moments that capture the innovation and energy that led to the birth of our nation--Drury and Clavin provide the definitive account of this seminal and previously undervalued moment in the battle for American independence."--Dust jacket
- Biography type
- contains biographical information
- Cataloging source
- DLC
- Dewey number
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- 973.3
- 973.3/341
- Illustrations
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- illustrations
- maps
- portraits
- plates
- Index
- index present
- LC call number
- E234
- LC item number
- .D78 2018
- Literary form
- non fiction
- Nature of contents
- bibliography
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