Publisher's Synopsis
Excerpt from Washington at Valley Forge One Hundred Years Ago: Or the Foot-Prints of the Revolution
The visitant to the grounds of this historical encampment, stand ing upon the highest point, looking eastward, thence to the south, comprehends the entire area of the campaign, which began by the landing of Sir William Howe, at Elkton, Delaware, on the 18th of August, 1777, and closed on the memorable 1lth of December of the same year, in Whitemarsh, Pennsylvania, resulting in the defeat of Washington at Brandywine and Germantown, the occupation of Philadelphia by the British army during the following winter, and the withdrawal of the Continental army to the uninviting heights of Valley Forge.
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