Winter at Valley Forge

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Winter at Valley Forge
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Leading to Winter

• Victories at Trenton and Princeton
• Saratoga TURNING POINT
• French enter on Continental side

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Valley Forge

• Winter of 1777 78
• Very cold
• 12,000 men housed in makeshift tents
• Low food
• Hundreds died

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Washington's Leadership

• Firm
• Kept army united
• Men admired him
• Strict discipline
• Advocate for army

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Thomas Paine

• Wrote The American Crisis
• Purpose To rally troops at Valley Forge

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• The summer soldier and the sunshine patriot
  will, in this crisis, shrink from the service of
  their country but he that stands it now,
  deserves the love and thanks of man and woman.
• Thomas Paine Textbook page 130
• What is Thomas Paine saying with this quote?
• Who was Paines audience?