https://padlet.com/dixon/5iu7s15tg48t You will be analyzing life at Valley Forge. Read or view the entries in order. Complete the chart in your notebook as you read through the entries. en-us 2015-10-28 15:50:22 UTC 2023-05-19 17:49:50 UTC hello@padlet.com dixon https://padlet.com/dixon/5iu7s15tg48t/wish/77998646 Picture #1]]> 2015-10-28 15:53:05 UTC https://padlet.com/dixon/5iu7s15tg48t/wish/77998646 dixon https://padlet.com/dixon/5iu7s15tg48t/wish/77999241 Picture #2]]> 2015-10-28 15:55:02 UTC https://padlet.com/dixon/5iu7s15tg48t/wish/77999241 dixon https://padlet.com/dixon/5iu7s15tg48t/wish/78000055 Go to the following link to read the letter - http://founders.archives.gov/documents/Washington/03-16-02-0306 

]]> 2015-10-28 15:57:34 UTC https://padlet.com/dixon/5iu7s15tg48t/wish/78000055 dixon https://padlet.com/dixon/5iu7s15tg48t/wish/78001671 Picture #3]]> 2015-10-28 16:02:08 UTC https://padlet.com/dixon/5iu7s15tg48t/wish/78001671 dixon https://padlet.com/dixon/5iu7s15tg48t/wish/143216515 In 1777, General Washington led his army into winter quarters at Valley Forge, Pennsylvania. About 2,000 huts were built as shelter. The winter proved to be an ordeal for the Continental Army, and only the determined will of General Washington kept the army together. While enduring brutal cold, many soldiers lacked food, clothing, and even shoes. General Washington wrote to Congress, "You might have tracked the army...to Valley Forge by the blood of their feet." One soldier wrote that his meal at Thanksgiving was "a leg of nothing and no turnips." Sickness and starvation claimed over 2,500 lives. Many worried about their families and unable to endure more, deserted and went home.]]> 2016-12-12 19:07:06 UTC https://padlet.com/dixon/5iu7s15tg48t/wish/143216515 dixon https://padlet.com/dixon/5iu7s15tg48t/wish/143217715 As the soldiers shivered in their log huts and endured incredible hardships, Baron Friedrich von Steuben arrived from Germany. His new drill technique simplified the complicated maneuvers soldiers must learn and turned the ragtag American army into a much more efficient fighting force. By late winter, better supply methods brought food and clothing. Though weakened by its ordeal, by the spring the newly organized Continental Army was ready to take the war to the British. The Patriot Army fought the British to a draw at Monmouth Courthouse, New Jersey, in June of 1778. British troops then moved to occupy New York, where they stayed until the end of the war.]]> 2016-12-12 19:10:30 UTC https://padlet.com/dixon/5iu7s15tg48t/wish/143217715 dixon https://padlet.com/dixon/5iu7s15tg48t/wish/143220463 As news of hardships at Valley Forge spread, Patriots from around the nation sent help. Women collected food, medicine, warm clothes, and ammunition for the army. Some women, like Martha Washington, wife of George Washington, went to Valley Forge to help the sick and wounded.
The arrival of desperately needed supplies was soon followed by warmer weather. The drills of Baron von Steuben helped the Continentals to march and fight with a new skill. ]]> 2016-12-12 19:18:19 UTC https://padlet.com/dixon/5iu7s15tg48t/wish/143220463