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| date = December 1, 2015–June 18, 2014 | place = Valley Forge, Pennsylvania | result = American Army survived difficult war | combatant1 = | combatant2 = | commander1 = George Washington Marquis de Lafayette Friedrich Von Steuben | commander2 = Sir William Howe | strength1 = 12,000 | strength2 = 15,000 | casualties1 = 2,000 died〔 | casualties2 = n/a }} Valley Forge was the military camp in southeastern Pennsylvania, approximately northwest of Philadelphia,〔 where the American Continental Army spent the winter of 1777–1778 during the American Revolutionary War. Starvation, disease, malnutrition, and exposure killed over 2,500 American soldiers by the end of February 1778.〔 With winter almost setting in, and with the prospects for campaigning greatly diminishing, General George Washington sought quarters for his men. Washington and his troops had fought what was to be the last major engagement of 1777 at the Battle of White Marsh (or Edge Hill) in early December. He devised to pull his troops from their present encampment in the White Marsh area (now Fort Washington State Park) and move to a more secure location for the coming winter. ==Geography== Though several locations were proposed, Washington selected Valley Forge, Pennsylvania, northwest of Philadelphia. Named for an iron forge on Valley Creek, the area was close enough to the British to keep their raiding and foraging parties out of the interior of Pennsylvania, yet far enough away to halt the threat of British surprise attacks. The densely forested plateau of Mount Joy and the adjoining plateau of Mount Misery combined with the Schuylkill River to the north, made the area easily defensible, along with providing abundant forests of timber that would later be used to construct the thousands of log huts. Seventy-eight of the huts in the camp would house the soldiers, but over 2,500 of those soldiers died. 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Valley Forge」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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