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Date Submitted: 05/27/2008 04:06 PM
A week before Christmas of 1777, our army took up winter quarters at Valley Forge on the west side of the Schuylkill. Even though the location of the battle is often criticized, it could be easily defended. It was freezing cold, and our army was very ill equipped. After all, our army is made up of common people like us. Our army didn’t even have proper clothes to endure the dangerous cold.
As couple of days passed, the General got the news of British troops arrival. We waited and waited, not enthusiastically, but in fear not for the red coats but for the freezing cold. Finally, the day to fight the filthy British arrived. On December 13, we all lined up like we used to and we waited for the General’s Order. Our soldiers were barefoot, and half naked compared to the British scum with all the necessary coats, hats, gloves and even leather shoes. Our General gave the order to fire and so did the British General after we started firing. Bullets were flying around everywhere. I still don’t know how I am still alive after the close encounter the death for a second.
My best friend, whom I knew since my childhood, fell to the ground in front of eyes. He always used to talk about going home and spending some time with his family. In addition to the problems we were already in, our supply of ammunition is running out and also the soldiers are starving to death as result of shortage of food. In addition to soldiers, horses also starved to death. Bloody footprints in the snow left by bootless men. Near naked soldiers wrapped in thin blankets freezing and chanting, “We want meat, we want meat!” and ready to get out of this horrific place.
As far as our eyes could was a swarm of men’s skeletons laying around to be honored for their adventurous duties and passion to be free and independent. It was a horrid sight that I wish I could ignore. Our army was trying its fullest capacity to stay intact to stop the British from preceding any further inland, even after all the...