History of the United States I / Unit 6 USH1 0767 short lesson, about 20 seconds
Valley Forge and Von Steuben
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The idea
Of eleven thousand encamped at Valley Forge, twenty-five hundred died of starvation, malnutrition and disease, and desertion ran at about one hundred a week.
In practice
Washington writing that there had been little less than a famine in camp.
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Von Steuben arrived in February seventeen seventy-eight and drilled a small corps intensively, who then trained the others.
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