Evie Bracci Valley Forge Storyboard
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- The Winter at Valley Forge (1777)
- At Valley Forge, the winter was not the coldest. There was snow and some rainfall here and there, but it was difficult to live through because there was a lack of clothing and shoes so the soldiers often were freezing.
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- George Washington's Quarters
- George Washington's quarters at Valley Forge were very furnished. He had an office, bedroom, dining room for him and his aides, etc. He Would push his tables together every day at 2:00pm so he and his military aides could eat together.
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- Soldiers Quarters
- The soldiers' quarters at Valley Forge were relatively small huts made of logs/wood and the roughly 2,000 huts housed the 12,000 soldiers.
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- Problems Faced by the Soldiers #1
- One problem the soldiers faced at Valley Forge was the lack of clothing they had. During the winter, the soldiers were practically freezing because of how cold it was when they had little-to-no clothing. Shoes were very scarce.
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- Problems Faced by the Soldiers #2
- Another problem the soldiers had was their lack of food. They almost ran out of all of their meat and they had resorted to just eating flour mixed with water. Some nights they would go hungry.
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- Training with Baron Fredrick von Steuben
- Baron Fredrick von Steuben taught all of the able-bodied soldiers at Valley Forge how to do things like march, follow orders quickly, and use the bayonet.
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