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Show The Valley Forge Monument. Monuments have been erected on many of the battlefields where American Ameri-can blood was shed during the revolution. revolu-tion. The valor displayed at Bunker Hill, Saratoga, Yorktown, and elsewhere else-where has been commemorated in granite or marble. Not until very recently, re-cently, however, . was a monument erected on that historic ground where the revolutionary soldiers did not fight the British, but where they fought against cold, hunger, and disease, suffering suf-fering greater losses than in many of the pitched battles in which they were engaged. If Washington's little army had not held together, at Valley Forge there probably would have been no "crowning "crown-ing grace" of Yorktown. Hence the Daughters of the Rsvoluticn -quite properly prop-erly selected the anniversary of the surrender, of CornwaUis as the (lay for; the uriveiling-of the shaft built with money raised by them in memory of the revolutionary soldiers who died at Valley Forge during that dreary winter win-ter of 1777-78. .- |