Valley Forge / Bob Drury and Tom Clavin.

Drury, Bob, (author.). Clavin, Tom, 1954- (author.).

Summary:

December 1777. Some 12,000 members of America's beleaguered Continental Army stagger into a small Pennsylvania encampment 23 miles northwest of British-occupied Philadelphia. Starving and half-naked, reeling from a string of demoralizing defeats at the hands of King George III's army, they are barely equipped to survive the coming winter. Their commander in chief is at the lowest ebb of his military career; the Continental Congress is in exile and the American Revolution appears to be lost. 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, and sets out to breathe new life into his military force. Drury and Clavin show how this miracle was accomplished despite thousands of American soldiers succumbing to disease, starvation, and the elements.

Record details

ISBN: 9781501152719
ISBN: 1501152718
Physical Description: xii, 417 pages, 16 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations, maps, portraits ; 25 cm
Edition: First Simon & Schuster edition
Publisher: New York : Simon & Schuster, 2018.
Copyright: ©2018

Content descriptions

General Note:	Maps on endpapers.
Bibliography, etc. Note:	Includes bibliographical references (pages 359-364) and index.
Formatted Contents Note:	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".