Threshold to Valley Forge

Auteur

Sheilah Vance, Esq. grew up on Rebel Hill in Gulph Mills, Pennsylvania and resides in Washington, D.C. She has written and presented extensively about the Philadelphia Campaign of the Revolutionary War. She is the author of the article, "Valley Forge's Threshold: The Encampment at Gulph Mills," in the Journal of the American Revolution; the award-winning novel, Becoming Valley Forge; and the book, Six Days in December: General George Washington's and the Continental Army's Encampment on Rebel Hill and Gulph Mills, December 12-19, 1777. A practicing attorney and higher education administrator, Vance has a BA from Howard University School of Communications and a JD from Georgetown University.

Texte du rabat

Known as the Threshold to Valley Forge, the Gulph Mills Encampment, December 12-19, 1777 is often forgotten or minimized. Yet during those six days, General George Washington, the new nation, and its foreign allies made decisions that changed the entire course of the Revolutionary War.