Examples of Valley Forge in the following topics:
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- General George Washington and his army made camp at Valley Forge from December 1777 to June 1778 to protect Pennsylvania from the British.
- Conditions at Valley Forge were extremely bleak.
- Approximately 500 women spent the winter at Valley Forge.
- A celebration of the alliance pact was
organized in Valley Forge on May 6, 1778.
- Washington's troops endured harsh conditions at Valley Forge in the winter of 1777-78.
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- General George Washington
and his army made camp at Valley Forge from December 1777 to June 1778 to
protect Pennsylvania from the British.
- However, many hardships befell the troops quartered at Valley Forge during
the winter.
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June 19, 1778, after six months at Valley Forge, the Continental Army marched
in pursuit of the British, who were moving toward New York.
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- British culture, styles, commerce, and society forged ties between residents of the different colonies.
- Increasing competition between Britain and France, especially in the Great Lakes and Ohio valley, was one of the primary origins of the war.
- In the Treaty of Paris ending the war,Britain gained all French territory east of the Mississippi River, including Quebec, the Great Lakes, and the Ohio River valley.
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- Famous range wars included the Lincoln County War, the Pleasant Valley War, the Mason County War, and the Johnson County Range War.
- The Pleasant Valley War was commonly thought to be an Arizona sheep war between two feuding families, the cattle-herding Grahams and the sheep-herding Tewksburys.
- However, eyewitness reports show that sheep were not brought into Pleasant Valley until 1885, two years after the feuding between the Tewksbury and Graham factions began.
- Of all the feuds that have taken place throughout American history, the Pleasant Valley War was the most costly, resulting in an almost complete annihilation of the two families involved.
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- Famous range wars included the Lincoln County War, the Pleasant Valley War, the Mason County War, and the Johnson County Range War, and sometimes were fought between local residents and gunmen hired by absentee landowners.
- The Pleasant Valley War, sometimes called the "Tonto Basin Feud," "Tonto Basin War," or "Tewksbury-Graham Feud," was a range war fought in Pleasant Valley, Arizona, in 1882 to 1892.
- Pleasant Valley is located in Gila County, Arizona, but many of the events related to this feud took place in neighboring Apache and Navajo counties.
- The Pleasant Valley War had the highest number of fatalities of such civilian conflicts in U.S. history, with an estimated total of 35 to 50 deaths, and the near annihilation of the males of the two feuding families.
- The Pleasant Valley War was one of the deadliest and well-known range wars.
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- The commissioners learned of the Franco-American alliance forged on February 6, 1778, shortly before embarking on their mission.
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- Entrepreneurs established shipyards to build fishing fleets and, in time, trading vessels and iron forges.
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- "In the nineteenth century, saws and axes made in New England cleared the forests of Ohio; New England ploughs broke the prairie sod, New England scales weighed wheat and meat in Texas; New England serge clothed businessmen in San Francisco; New England cutlery skinned hides to be tanned in Milwaukee and sliced apples to be dried in Missouri; New England whale oil lit lamps across the continent; New England blankets warmed children by night and New England textbooks preached at them by day; New England guns armed the troops; and New England dies, lathes, looms, forges, presses and screwdrivers outfitted factories far and wide. " - Jane Jacobs, The Economy of Cities, 1969
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- Although largely observed in New Amsterdam and the Hudson River Valley, the terms of surrender were immediately violated by the English along the Delaware River, where pillaging, looting, and arson were undertaken under the orders of English Colonel Richard Carr who had been dispatched to secure the valley.
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- In 1903, Roosevelt toured the Yosemite Valley with John Muir, who had a very different view of conservation, and tried to minimize commercial use of water resources and forests.
- Working through the Sierra Club, Muir succeeded in having Congress transfer the Mariposa Grove and Yosemite Valley to the federal government by 1905.