Valley+Forge

[|Mixbook] [|Valley Forge Video] media type="file" key="08 - Romeo and Juliet Instrumental.mp3" width="240" height="20" You know how it feels when your stomach rumbles? Well, imagine that you are in the army and eating "firecake" (a tasteless mixture of flour and water) day after day. You have had very little bread or meat to eat, your shoes are worn through, your clothes were made for warmer weather or well worn from many battles, and you have no warm place to sleep. Would you complain? Sure! However, according to General George Washington's letter to Congress, the soldiers in his Continental Army did not.

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