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from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- A village of southeast Pennsylvania on the Schuylkill River northwest of Philadelphia. It was the site of the headquarters of the Continental Army under George Washington from December 1777 to June 1778 during the American Revolution. The encampment suffered greatly due to winter weather, disease, and short rations.
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The British raiders repulsed an American vanguard and made off with two thousand sheep and cattle; the rebel army trudged on, short of food, many shoeless, until they reached a frozen notch in the hills called Valley Forge.
Robert Morris Charles Rappleye 2010
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The British raiders repulsed an American vanguard and made off with two thousand sheep and cattle; the rebel army trudged on, short of food, many shoeless, until they reached a frozen notch in the hills called Valley Forge.
Robert Morris Charles Rappleye 2010
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Washington had camped at a place called Valley Forge which has since become symbolic of hardship and suffering.
A Treasury of Heroes and Heroines A Record of High Endeavour and Strange Adventure from 500 B.C. to 1920 A.D. Clayton Edwards
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There was another rag tag rebel army two hundred years ago, who almost lost everything, but managed to hang on at a place called Valley Forge.
latimes.com - News 2011
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What was the character -- what the tendency of the letters of "Valley Forge" who has unquestionably committed
Nuts for Future Historians to Crack Horace Wemyss Smith 1858
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"A few years since a writer, over the signature of" Valley Forge, "published in an evening paper of Philadelphia, called the" _Evening
Nuts for Future Historians to Crack Horace Wemyss Smith 1858
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New hybrid elms that are disease resistant, such as Valley Forge and Majestic, show promise,
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Before this paper reached Congress or came to Washington’s hand the choice of a campsite had been made—a wooded region on the south side of the Schuylkill, eighteen miles northwest of the occupied city, at a place called the Valley Forge.
Washington Richard Harwell 1968
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Before this paper reached Congress or came to Washington’s hand the choice of a campsite had been made—a wooded region on the south side of the Schuylkill, eighteen miles northwest of the occupied city, at a place called the Valley Forge.
Washington Richard Harwell 1968
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Before this paper reached Congress or came to Washington’s hand the choice of a campsite had been made—a wooded region on the south side of the Schuylkill, eighteen miles northwest of the occupied city, at a place called the Valley Forge.
Washington Richard Harwell 1968
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