George Washington at Valley Forge: Sink or Swim
When people hear “Valley Forge”, they often imagine a frozen nightmare: starving soldiers, bare feet in the snow, and George Washington standing grimly in the cold, somehow holding it all together through sheer willpower. That image isn’t wrong, but it’s incomplete. Valley Forge was not just a place of suffering. It was a turning point. A moment when the Continental Army stopped being a loose collection of determined but inexperienced fighters and became a professional …