Today in history [Jonn]
231 years ago today, George Washington led a ragged Army into winter “quarters” at Valley Forge, PA. They’d suffered several defeats in the preceding months, supplies were dwindling and foraging was becoming sparse. To the ragged 12,000-man Army, it seemed the Revolution was nearly over. The following Spring, George Washington wrote;
To see the men without clothes to cover their nakedness, without blankets to lie upon, without shoes…without a house or hut to cover them until those could be built, and submitting without a murmur, is a proof of patience and obedience which, in my opinion, can scarcely be paralleled.
It took six weeks to build the one thousands huts they needed to escape the winter elements (the logs for which had to be dragged from four miles away) and their main source of nourishment was “firecakes”, a charitable name for flour and water baked on a rock near the fire.
George Washington repeatedly call on support from Congress which never came. The Army survived solely on the force of their collective will and emerged from the winter stronger than ever and survived for 231 more years.
Also, Gateway Pundit reminds us that 10 years ago today Bill Clinton was impeached for a purely selfish act.
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Congress never did provide support because Harry Reid and Nancy Pelosi stood up in Congress and told them, ” the war is lost, lost I tell you”. So the fair weather patriots went home.