Valley Forge is like a campsite where Washington decided to build a winter camp.It wasn’t big enough to call a village that is why they made it a camp.I would leave/Quit at Valley Forge because many people have died from illnesses (Doc A).In decemeber 1777 2,898 people got ill ,and on Feburary 1st 1778 3,989 people got ill .From Decemeber to June 1,000-2,500 had died from being very ill (Doc A).(Doc C)Many people started to suffer from fatigues at the Campaign , they were poor with little food ,cold weather,nasty clothes,nasty food,and so on they practically freezed and starved .(Doc D)Many men/soldiers risked their lives for the country ,Thomas Paine wrote this on essay called “The American Crisis”made on December 23rd 1776 while all this
Techniques- Primary Quote about the importance of the resources near Valley Forge, “Vast extend of fertile country would be despoiled and ravaged.” –George Washington. Ask the audience to mark on topography maps of the area, “What are important features for a defense to protect large groups of people? Where would you build an encampment? Why?”
• General Washington and his men seek shelter at Valley Forge after Battle of White Marsh
Though originally the Prussian General Von Steuben had decided to turn down working for the continental army, he had to reconsider, upon learning that European authorities were going to sexually persecute him. However, Baron Von Steuben changed his mind and agreed to train the soldiers in the America Continental army, as an unpaid volunteer. He wasn’t yet aware of the hard work to be done. After some small lies by George Washington and Benjamin Franklin, word of Steuben’s past employments preceded him to Congress, gaining him quick acceptance. He then quickly joined the troops at Valley Forge in 1778, along with his servants Karl Vogel, Thevenaud de Francy, and Pierre Etienne du Ponceau, who remained Steuben’s adjutant until 1779 (American Revolution Vol. 2.). He saw the cold, disease-stricken, starved, and half- clothed, poorly supplied men, and became aware that changes needed to be made.
I would not quit because only 15% of people are dying. My first piece of evidence that supports this claim is from document A and it shows 3,989/8,000 soldiers are sick, but only 1,800/12,000 died which is only 15%. Even though half the population is sick, only 15% people are dying, which is not a huge amount of people are dying. This evidence supports my claim because it is telling you how many people died. My second piece of evidence that supports this claim is from document A and the numbers show that not a lot of people are leaving. On document A there is a graph
Even through all of the difficult situations I had faced at Valley Forge, I would still re-enlist and come back for another term. I know that there will be people who will oppose to my idea of re-enlisting because the experiences at Valley Forge had given us reasons to quit but behind the hardship of the situations, I know that Valley Forge had also given us reasons to stay.
The final reason I would have abandoned Valley Forge was because of the lack of food and poor living quality. When the soldier arrived at Valley Forge, they didn’t have a lot of resources because not a lot of people were supporting them. Therefore, they were all given very little food so they could ration it all out and were forced to live in small huts, according to Document C. I would have rather go home to my family and live in at least moderate comfort than have to fight and live extremely poorly.
Lee recognized the dwindling resource supply and concluded that success required offensive action. Lee, with the support of Jefferson Davis, hoped aggressive military tactics would push out Union forces devastating Southern soil and end the war before the home front fell apart. However, his plan to “take the war to the North, take the war out of Virginia…[and] hopefully get into Maryland” would require more soldiers (blight). But with the destruction and loss of land, particularly that devoted to industry and agriculture, efficiency on the home front was more important than ever. Approximately 61.5% of Confederate soldiers lived as farmers or farm laborers. Some of these men needed to remain on the home front to preserve some stability. However, by 1864, Lee could not “see how [the Confederacy could] escape the natural military consequences of the enemy’s numerical superiority” unless “no man should be excused from service” (gin, 252). With an army whose “ranks [were] growing weaker” and “losses [were] not supplied by recruits”, the battlefront’s strength would dwindle without additional recruits (gin, 150). Unfortunately for the Confederacy, too few men existed to sustain both the home front and the
It was the winter of 1777 and 1778, about 18 miles outside of Philadelphia. Commander George Washington and his Continental Army set up a camp named Valley Forge. Nearly several thousand patriot soldiers were sent there to fight against the British. There were 18,000 comfortably quartered soldiers. Since there was no place for the many soldiers to stay, they made log “huts” There were no beds, just fragile straw on the cold, mud floor. They housed 12 men and had no windows. Cold was one problem, smoke was another. Since the “huts” had no windows, the smoke had nowhere to get out and made the soldiers hurt. There were many problems, and the first two years of the American Revolution had not gone well for the Continental Army. Washington was having problems keeping soldiers in the army. Even nine-month men decided to go home and not returning. Others simply deserted. Would you have quit Valley Forge? There are reasons to quit, like the poor conditions, but I would stay at Valley Forge because I am not a summer soldier or sunshine patriot and there is still hope.
The Army had many struggles that ranged from malnourishment all the way to not having enough people to fight7. The Continental Congress had been in control of this army since 1775 but one issue they had since day one was the lack of funds need to feed, clothe and arm the army that would later win the war and help declare independence of America7. Off an enlistment from dated June 1776 were these expectations “a good effective Firearm . . . Bayonet . . . [or] Haches [hatchet] or Tomahawk, a Cartridge Box and Blanket.”7. This
In 1777-1778 under the Articles of Confederation, the Continental Congress did not possess the authority to tax its citizens to support its Army. The lack of adequate food, clothing, and shelter posed many challenges for Washington. At that moment the poor conditions had taken more lives than fighting had, Washington lost over 2500 men from the extreme cold, starvation and disease with several others deserting in search of better conditions.5 Washington wrote a letter to George Clinton of the Continental Congress describing the situation at Valley
Between 1860 and 1877, America experienced a number of constitutional and social changes, as a result of the Republican election and loss of southern power that lead to the Civil War, and the reconstruction efforts that would follow, inevitably proving unsuccessful. During this period, the south, and the freedmen left residing in southern states as well, had to adjust to a new society, driven by constitutional developments such as the Emancipation Proclamation, and later, the 13th amendment, which freed slaves and left them to assimilate into a white civilization. These freedmen gained the rights to vote, hold positions of power in congress, serve in the army, and own land- which although would not last for a very long period- would prove to
In the winter of 1777 to the summer of 1778, George Washington had a winter camp called Valley Forge. It was a very difficult place to live but most soldiers toughed it out for their country, for their freedom and for America. It was cold, sickness was thriving, food was disgusting but I would have stayed and fought through it for my country because there were other brave soldiers that stuck with it so I would too, Washington is getting congress to help with the terrible conditions, and I do not want to be a summer soldier because they stop when times get rough and I want to stay the entire time for my freedom.
Many of the men are starving and ill; I doubt I will even make it out alive. Two years into the Revolutionary War, the capital of Philadelphia was taken by the British. The Patriots had set up a winter camp at Valley Forge, 18 miles from Philadelphia in 1777. Your 9 month enlistment is up on March 1st. One question I have to ask myself is should I quit (leave and not re-enlist)? If I quit I could make it home to my family, but there also a bad part of quitting. If all of the soldiers quit we will lose the war and then are country will be controlled by the British. There are three main reasons that I have been persuaded to re-enlist for, which are, we need more soldiers, you could move up in rank, but mostly because Washington
In society today, whenever and wherever a tragic school shooting occurs, politicians and social media pounce on their chance to do something on gun control across the nation. Although the guns were the weapons during the shooting, they are not the cause of the shootings. Instead of gun control, everyone should be focusing on how to help the shooters who showed signs of mental illness. After all, a sane person would not go buy a gun with the intent of murdering several people; only a mentally ill person who became aggressive would go out and buy a gun for that purpose. Therefore, everyone should be trying to prevent the real cause of school shootings from occurring to prevent another tragic event from happening again. The main reason why school shootings, like the Virginia Tech Massacre, occur is that the shooters were mentally ill or depressed; the tragic events can be avoided if they got the psychological treatment they needed before they became too unstable. An overall solution to this is to raise awareness of depression and its warning signs in order to prevent another outbreak of depression-related violence from happening in the future.
The 2nd Doc. A we had 12,000 men when we were at Valley Forge. But then the bad stuff came like frostbite, starvation, and smallpox. Fortunately Washington he was immune to those things at Valley Forge. But i could not say the same things about the army because of those things were the main problem and ten men died a day. After that we were only at 8,000 men, but the men still had their spirit within them. only 50% of the troops were sick which was critical but the other 50% wasn 't sick and i guess that 's good, Washington’s plan didn’t quietl...