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The Valley Forge winter : civilians and soldiers in war Wayne Bodle
Historical Society of Pennsylvania - Pennsylvania Room UPA/Mt E 234 .B63 2002
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- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Bodle, Wayne K.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Valley Forge (Pa.)--History--18th century.
- Washington, George, 1732-1799--Headquarters--Pennsylvania--Valley Forge.
- United States. Continental Army--Military life.
- Pennsylvania--History--Revolution, 1775-1783--Social aspects.
- United States--History--Revolution, 1775-1783--Social aspects.
- Physical Description:
- xiii, 335 p. : maps ; 24 cm.
- Place of Publication:
- University Park, Pa. : Pennsylvania State University Press, c2002.
- Contents:
- Introduction : the myth and the map
- Seat of war
- Campaign for Pennsylvania
- Doing what we can
- Learning to live with war
- Starve, dissolve, or disperse
- Trublesum times for us all, but wors for the solders
- Stone which the builders have rejected
- Lord's time to work
- Chapter of experiments
- As the fine season approaches
- Seated war.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references (p. [311]-326) and index.
- ISBN:
- 0271022302 (alk. paper)
- OCLC:
- 50292530
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