My Time At Valley Forge My time at Washington’s camp as a soldier has not been easy. Almost half of the soldiers have become sick or have died. Sometimes there is no meat and the food is bland and near tasteless. I have found myself fighting to stay alive and well. I must make the decision to re-enlist and continue fighting for my country or go home and care for my aging mother. I fear for my life but also for the freedom of my country. I have decided to re-enlist for three reasons‚ which are:
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Valley Forge: Would you have quit? When I hear the question Valley Forge: would you have quit? The first thing I think of is how hard it had to be. Not only did some people die from various things‚ but people were getting very ill and sick. Even though this all sounds bad plus the other things the Continental Army had to go through I still would have stayed at Valley Forge to fight through it all for my country. There are many reasons to stay and fight for the Continental Army and for the
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Imagine being a soldier in Valley Forge‚ having to live in 12 man huts for six months in the middle of a blizzard‚ some of your fellow soldiers are becoming ill‚ others are deserting and your nine months are nearly over. Would you re-enlist and stay at Valley Forge or would you leave and go home to your family and aging mother? If I was a soldier in the Continental Army and the conditions were the same‚ I would re-enlist. I would stay in Washington’s army because many of the soldiers
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Valley Forge: Would you have quit? You see people like Bear Grylls doing survival shows‚ and showing you tricks to survive in the wilderness all the time. But have you ever wondered what it would be like if you had to survive in the cold‚ with not a lot of food‚ illness plagued your camp‚ and the stakes were your life? This was Valley Forge in the harsh winter of 1777-1778‚ were the continental army was suffering a brutal winter in huts on a farmer’s field‚ but question is. Would you have re-enlisted
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In Forge‚ the story begins where Chains ends‚ with Isabel and Curzon escaping to freedom‚ but the focus of the story quickly changes from Isabel to Curzon. The two have separated again‚ with Isabel running away to try to find her sister and Curzon finding himself in the middle of the Battle of Saratoga‚ then enlisting in the Patriot army. The irony of a slave fighting for the freedom of others does not escape Curzon‚ who attempts to argue his case with his friend and fellow soldier Eben. Curzon questions
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and dirty‚ you head out and leave‚ right? Well that’s not the story in the year 1776‚ when General George Washington was leading the rebel army into the Revolutionary War. He and his inexperienced militia set up a winter camp at a place called Valley Forge in Pennsylvania‚ but just a few miles away was General Howe who was in charge of the British army in Philadelphia. While the British army is healthy and warm‚ the rebel army is freezing to death with no clothing and very little food. Most of the
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Valley Forge Essay~ by Carlos Reynoso If I had a chance to quit the war I would‚ because of of how everything was. The condition of the war was bad. People were getting disease and getting sick and dying. people were starving to death‚ didn’t have clothing‚ places to sleep‚ barely had any weapons‚ and didn’t have that much gun powder‚ also the British had more money and more supplies than the the Americans did. Here is some prove of the the stuff i’m talking about. The American army had a total
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fashion of World war II with modern arms but across the cities and they can linger for a decade as proved by the battle of Chavez ravine. Located near California Highway‚ Chavez ravine was the home for many Mexican-Americans and some Chinese who worked in Los Angeles City. This ideological battle raged for a complete decade that is‚ from 1951 to 1961 (Hines‚ 1982). The first stage in this battle was the land acquirement by the government to build a viable public housing in the area after the establishment
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Valley Forge Essay If I was a soldier in Valley Forge I would have had to think every little detail out before I made my decision. Would I be better off leaving? Would I have a good chance of staying alive if I stayed? I wouldn’t just jump into the decision without thinking everything through. Most likely I would have quit‚ and here are the reasons why. In Valley Forge at this time it was cold‚ freezing actually. They had no warm clothes and even if they did it was torn to shreds. People around
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GERRY AND IRMA GRUNDMANN foot note 42 The Battle of the Ruhr Valley was a 5 month long campaign of strategic bombing by the Allies from March 1943 to July 1943 targeting coke plants‚ steelworks‚ and 10 synthetic oil plants. The targets included Essen‚ Dusseldorf and Cologne. The rate of bombers destroyed in these raids varied from 3‚ 4‚ and 5 percent and twice they lost 8 percent. On May 17‚ the bouncing bombs breached the Mohne and Elder Dams‚ featured in the 1954
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