Show I LW t VV mm nil M i m ii 1 m H UIN 11 J 1 HIS THE LIFE mm STORY fR ANNIVERSARY IN PICTURES Et m COMMEMORATING OF HIS BIRTH o. o O u q n o E 1 I I 5 f vi I c. c 4 s T t I I t 1 X 1 vt y 1 S 1 C 1532 BY MI-A MI INC heM his Valley Forge Force tapile the l. l of les Cha Lee Ue who no liter lain as court court- condition Washington of his men strong portion it at mar a up p t W Washington's strait strategy t Arrival of rJ the Ine French Freh Heel Pert h lp i oUt the Bri British h at New oo York C City 5 By NEA Service Public acclaim of General Wash Vash in 1776 soon turned to con con- The year of ot 1777 wa marked by a series cries of s setbacks tb The British captured cap cap- Philadelphia congress fled to the he interior enemies schemed to displace displace displace dis dis- place Washington and another general genral general gen gen- eral ral took the spotlight by his victor victory over ver the British at Saratoga Washington ton failing railing in an attack upon Germantown was forced to take up winter quarters at Valley VaHey Forge This was probably the darkest phase of f his career While the British were living iving in luxury in Philadelphia the Amen Ameri cans ans ill clothed and half halt starved were verc dying ding on the frozen h hillsides of Valley Forge Fore Washington's strength o of charac charac- ter cr was again demonstrated when he held his men together throughout the winter vinter despite grumbling and the meddling of ot congress Alliance with ith the French in irs the spring pring of 1778 altered the grim out- out look ook The British fearing a French blockade hastily retreated from Philadelphia Phil Phil- adelphia to New York City Hoping to cut of off part o of the enemy Washington rushed his men forward and the battle of ot Monmouth th followed His strategy failed however due to the he treachery of ot Charles Lee who gave a sudden order to retreat Arrival of the French fleet neet in July Jub 1778 isolated the British in New Ne York City ty and surrounding territory and Washington distributed his troops in cantonments around the city and in New Tew Jersey Tomorrow Tomorrow The The surrender of ot Corn- Corn Cornwallis' Cornwallis Cornwallis' Cornwallis wallis' wallis troops at Yorktown |