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Today's American Minute — Starving Ships & Freezing Winter at Valley Forge

Starving Ships & Freezing Winter at Valley Forge, 1777-78: "If those few thousand men endured that long winter of privation and suffering ... what right have we to be of little faith?" -American Minute with Bill Federer

December 20, 2020 • 1777-78: If those few thousand men endured that long winter of privation and suffering ... what right have we to be of little faith?" - American Minute with Bill Federer • Starving Ships & Freezing Winter at Valley Forge

Starving Ships & Freezing Winter at Valley Forge, 1777-78:  "If those few thousand men endured that long winter of privation and suffering ... what right have we to be of little faith?"  -American Minute with Bill Federer

Washington added:
"... that unless some great and capital change suddenly takes place ... this Army must inevitably ... starve, dissolve, or disperse, in order to obtain subsistence in the best manner they can."

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