| 来源类型 | Book |
| 规范类型 | 其他 |
| Valley Forge | |
| Newt Gingrich; William R. Forstchen | |
| 发表日期 | 2010-11-09 |
| 出版年 | 2010 |
| 语种 | 英语 |
| 摘要 | It’s the winter of 1777, and Washington’s battered, demoralized army retreats from Philadelphia. Arriving at Valley Forge, they discover that their repeated requests for a stockpile of food, winter clothing, and building tools have been ignored by Congress. With no other options available, the men settle down for a season of agony. For weeks the dwindling army lives under tents in the bitter cold. Food runs out. The men are on the point of collapse, while in Philadelphia the British, joined by Allen van Dorn, the Loyalist brother of the dead patriot, Jonathan van Dorn, live in luxury. In spite of the suffering and deceit, Washington endures all, joined at last by a volunteer from Germany, Baron von Steuben. Von Steuben begins the hard task of recasting the army as a professional fighting force capable of facing the British head-on–something it has never accomplished before–and in the process he will change the course of history. Valley Forge is a tour-de-force about endurance, survival, transformation, and rebirth. Washington and his Continental Army, against all odds, will be forged into a fighting force that will win a revolution. Newt Gingrich is a senior fellow at AEI. |
| 主题 | Society and Culture |
| URL | https://www.aei.org/research-products/book/valley-forge/ |
| 来源智库 | American Enterprise Institute (United States) |
| 资源类型 | 智库出版物 |
| 条目标识符 | http://119.78.100.153/handle/2XGU8XDN/208886 |
| 推荐引用方式 GB/T 7714 | Newt Gingrich,William R. Forstchen. Valley Forge. 2010. |
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