This Day in History: A blizzard batters George Washington’s army at Valley Forge | Tara Ross

On this day in 1778, George Washington and his army endure an unusually bad week at Valley Forge. A snow storm had just started! The entire area was blanketed, and it left the army in pretty bad shape. Wood could not be transported to make fires. Food was already scarce, but now that was worse, too. The food magazines were pretty far away from the camp. Normally, the distance would prevent hungry soldiers from breaking into the food stores, but now the distance simply complicated efforts to eat, at least as long as the blizzard raged. Washington would soon write Governor George Clinton about the “famine in camp.” No meat was available. “Naked and starving as they are,” Washington concluded, “we cannot enough admire the incomparable patience and fidelity of the soldiery, that they have not been ere this excited by their sufferings, to a general mutiny or dispersion.” The men were sticking with Washington, despite their hunger. On February 11, the […]

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