Pros And Cons Of Valley Forge

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If you were stuck in a winter with no house, scarce clothes, low food, and had to march in almost no shoes. Would you stay? I would leave the first chance I had, but what if you had to stay or probably lose a war? Would that change your mind? Valley Forge was just that situation and the soldiers had to make that choice. The Congressional Congress recognized them, but couldn’t help them due to a financial crisis. They encouraged them to keep surviving and fighting, because if they fell the whole nation fell. During the event one quarter or the soldiers died, over 50% from sickness. However over 50% of the sick survived, so it wasn’t that big of a loss to their numbers. T Paine, a writer of some important documents criticizing Britain wrote a