1910–1911
Britannica 11th
Encyclopaedia Britannica · 11th edition
VALLEY FORGE, a small village in Chester county, Pennsylvania, U.S.A., on the S. bank of the Schuylkill river, about 20 m. N.W. of Philadelphia. It is served by the Philadelphia & Reading railway. The village lies in part of the tract occupied in the winter of 1777-1778 by the American army (under General Washington), whose sufferings from cold, starvation and sickness made the place historic. On the igih of December (after the battles of Brandywine and Germantown and the occupation of Philadelphia by the British) …
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