Valley Forge, the 1778 winter encampment of Washington's Continental Army, is the stuff of legend and lore....
Rick Herrera
Rick Herrera is Visiting Professor, Department of National Security and Strategy, U.S. Army War College and an award-winning historian. He is most recently the author of Feeding Washington’s Army: Surviving the Valley Forge Winter of 1778 (University of North Carolina Press, 2021).
[Washington] believes that if the Army is forced to disperse in order to feed itself, he will...