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Yes,I would have quite after completing Valley forge. Valley Forge was a military camp Valley Forge was a military can't just 18 miles northwest of Philadelphia. It's where American Continental Army spent their winter of 1777 through 1778 during the American Revolutionary War. Some reasons I would have quit was because the Continental Army was low on food, clothing, equipment, and other supplies. Soldiers had food eat for a while but in December through February soldiers ran really low on food and started eating dry meat and anything in their source.They would go out with their muskets and hunt for animals. I could not survive if I had to go hunt my own food to eat, or even eating only once a day. General Greene would ask farmer for their help to provide his troops with food to eat. Some of the shoulders would even share water, food, and utensils. …show more content…
The soldiers stayed in their winter camps which were “huts”. They were up of logs with a door at the end. Each of these huts had twelve men in them, with no beds just straw on mud ground. The soldiers were freezing cold and smoke was a big problems in these huts,the soil sees would have to stay in these for the next six months of their lives. Because the houses didn't provide a lot of shelter soldiers became very sick. The huts were only six feet long. I would not be able to do that, I like my warm soft bed and I wouldn't want to get sick because of the cold. Also to many men got sick, most reasons were because of the cold and men could not bathe and had very poor

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