Most American schoolchildren have heard the story of Valley Forge. In broad outline, it goes like this: By the winter of 1777 ...

Edward McKenry was born in 1753 in Rockbridge County, Virginia. In October 1777, Edward was mustered into Capt. John Steel’s ...

HUNTINGTON — The brutal winter of 1777-78 at Valley Forge will be the featured topic at the Thursday, March 14, meeting of the General Andrew Chapter of the Sons of the American Revolution. The ...

This month is a reminder. Two hundred and forty-seven years ago George Washington took his troops to a place to spend the winter. It was cold. The troops were wearing rags and running short of ...

When students of the Revolutionary War hear the words Valley Forge, they probably think of an iconic image: Gen. George Washington kneeling in the snow, surrounded by log cabins, praying for aid. The ...

THUNDER OUT OF CHINA (325 pp.)—Theodore H. White & Annalee Jacoby —William Sloane Associates ($3). In hardship and tragic travail, Chungking was to modern China what Valley Forge was to revolutionary ...

In September and October of 1777, the Continental Army led by Gen. George Washington was defeated by British forces in the battles of Brandywine Creek and Germantown. As a result, the Second ...

Labor Day Weekend is here, and there is no better place for one last summer hurrah than in Valley Forge and Montgomery County ...