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9780271025261

The Valley Forge Winter: Civilians and Soldiers in War

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  • ISBN13:

    9780271025261

  • ISBN10:

    0271025263

  • Edition: Reprint
  • Format: Paperback
  • Copyright: 2004-07-30
  • Publisher: Pennsylvania State Univ Pr
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Summary

Refuting commonly held myths about the American Revolution, this comprehensive history of the colonial army's winter encampment of 1777-1778 reveals the events that occurred both inside and outside the camp boundaries, discussing interactions between the soldiers and local civilians, divisions within the army, the political and military strategies of George Washington, and their implications in terms of the future of the United States. Reprint.

Author Biography

Wayne Bodle is Assistant Professor of History at Indiana University of Pennsylvania.

Table of Contents

Acknowledgments viii
Introduction: The Myth and the Map 1(14)
The Seat of War
15(16)
The Campaign for Pennsylvania
31(24)
Doing What We Can
55(20)
Learning to Live With War
75(28)
Starve, Dissolve, or Disperse
103(18)
Trublesum Times for Us All, but Wors for the Solders
121(22)
The Stone Which the Builders Have Rejected
143(20)
The Lord's Time to Work
163(26)
The Chapter of Experiments
189(32)
As the Fine Season Approaches
221(24)
The Seated War
245(22)
Notes 267(44)
Bibliography 311(16)
Index 327

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