I Can No Longer Handle These Harsh Conditions Valley Forge is about twenty miles away from Philadelphia. You wouldn’t really call it a village because it was awfully small. There were a few fieldstone houses and a mill for forging iron. The Quaker farms that were near there offered food. It was a week before Christmas in 1777. So the question if I would quit Valley Forge. Yes I would definitely quit Valley Forge. I mean of course I would. Just looking at the Chart of illnesses and deaths there and Dr. Waldo’s dairy even if Thomas Paine had a great speech. For starters the chart, about 50% of the soldiers were sick and the estimated amount of deaths were between 1,800 being the lowest and 2,500 at the highest amount. Secondly, the diary of
To make matters worse they had to deal with smallpox more dangerously than that is Lice because they rarely bathed or washed themselves or had laundered clothing. Another horrible things that Martin and his soldiers had to deal with was typhus a potential killer disease characterized by usually high fevers and red sports on the skin. Typhus took the lives of most of the Valley Forge Martin was under the brigade command of General James M. Varnum but his actual commander was Colonial John Durkee of the 4th Connecticut regiment, since Varnum was elsewhere. Washington’s continentals fairly well- supplied with food, but in the months preceding a major reason for so much privation at Valley Forge. Martin’s statement about Washington’s main army was misleading about them residing in the White Plains as they crossed the Hudson River and established winter quarters in Middlebrooks, New
In the winter of 1777 and 1778 George Washington and the Continental Army had a rough time at Valley Forge. Valley Forge was 18 miles outside of Philadelphia . Some of the soldiers left because all they did was work it was cold and they had bad clothing like worn out shoes and they were getting sick but not all left some stayed loyal and times got even harder but they were so devoted to stay and fight for their freedom. So I would not have quit because…..
Valley Forge, was the toughest obstacle the Continental Army had to face during the Revolutionary War. For about nine months in the cold winter, these soldiers stayed in this area for them to"... be close enough to Philadelphia to keep an eye on the British"(Background). By the end of the war, the colonists were victorious in gaining their independence. Regardless, I would abandon my position as a soldier at Valley Forge. My reasoning are due to the multiple hardship they endure such as living in a harsh environment, sickness that lead to death and lacked numerous resources.
I would not quit because only 15% of people are dying. My first piece of evidence that supports this claim is from document A and it shows 3,989/8,000 soldiers are sick, but only 1,800/12,000 died which is only 15%. Even though half the population is sick, only 15% people are dying, which is not a huge amount of people are dying. This evidence supports my claim because it is telling you how many people died. My second piece of evidence that supports this claim is from document A and the numbers show that not a lot of people are leaving. On document A there is a graph
• Valley Forge was among the last of true hardships of humanity during the war
The Missouri Compromise was a law passed in 1820 to allow Missouri, a slave owning state, and Maine, a free state, to become a part of the United States. This law had prohibited slavery in the Louisiana Territory, with Missouri as an exception. This law was deemed necessary by the North in order to preserve the unstable balance between the Free and Slave states. Though this does not seem like it would affect history that much, aside from adding to the land of the U.S., this law, or rather the repeal of this law, would only cause the North and South to drift further apart causing a feud that would eventually lead up to the Civil War.
The Civilian Conservation Corps (CCC) was a work relief program that functioned throughout the years of the Great Depression. From 1933 to 1942 the CCC employed three million unmarried and unemployed young men to help families receive income during the New Deal Era. President Franklin D. Roosevelt was the man who created this relief program on March 9, 1933 and the bill establishing the CCC was passed by Congress shortly after on March 31, 1933.
The New Deal Welfare Program brought about some programs during the time of depression that were helpful and some that cause issues. President Franklin Roosevelt tried to do everything he could to get provisions set up for the federal government to be able to offer help to those in need. Two of the programs that were put in place were the National Recovery Administration (NRA) and the Civilian Conservative Corps (CCC), which I will discuss both in detail.
I would leave Valley Forge because 49% of soldiers died at Valley Forge and the lowest estimate of dying soldiers was 1,800 (Doc A). The Diary of Dr. Waldo also wants to make me leave because there was no ventilation in the huts besides the door. But they didn't open the door because it would let all the cold air in. They also had no beds all they slept on was snow and dirt. Also Later during winter they ran out of meat and all the had to eat flower and water mixed and boiled (Doc D). Doc B would make me want to leave too because in the engraving the soldiers had no shoes and no warm clothes either. Also in the background it looks like I would literally freeze to death. Even if I did desert the probably couldn't find me from all the snow in
When thinking about the necessity of war it is always hard to determine when it ever really is essential for change to be made. There are different sides of a war and while sometimes many, in simplest form there are really only two sides of a war. Both sides of a war are said to be correct depending on whom is telling the story or argument. In the case of the Civil War slavery was the main opposition through this time and the division was through the North and the South. On the subject of the Civil War being a battle to be avoid it would have to be no. The Civil War was a long time coming. There are many reasons as to why America could not have continued with such opposing views on the ownership of slaves. With such an issue of an individual’s
The Red River Rebellion, lasting from 1869-1870, was a sequence of retaliations among the Metis and the Ontario settlers that led to the establishment of the provisional government by the Metis leader Louis Riel and his followers of the Red River Colony, in the modern day province of Manitoba. Many independent First Nations, Metis and Inuit peoples populated Rupert’s Land and the North-West Territory, but immediately impacted by the impending acquisition of Rupert’s Land was the settlement along the Red and Assiniboine Rivers. Pride and ignorance, the rebellion begins, mixed with physical and political battles with the goal of succession of the National Policy and the Metis long desired independent province.
In the war for freedom and independence from the tyrannous British, soldiers had to stay at the winter camp of Valley Forge in order to eventually come out as victorious. According to “Estimates of Illness and Deaths at Valley Forge,” soldiers still had a pretty good chance at survival at Winter Forge. Only 50% of soldiers were sick, so if you were to stay as active and healthy as possible, a soldier there should be fine. Also, this document states that about 10% or 1,800 out of 12,000 soldiers died during encampment. This shows that many soldiers had a great chance at survival if they just pushed through the harsh winter. Although the Diary of Dr. Waldo illustrates a horrible picture of Valley Forge, there is still evidence of why it would
Left with no options the Indians were backed into a corner. They didn't know whether to run or hid. Eventually, some decided to surrender and comply with the soldiers. While others decided to run and hide in the mountains. By June 6th thousands of Indians were caught and put into stockades. They departed on six tiny float boats lashed to the side of a steamboat. The environment that they had to endure was horrendous. In Dee Brown's writing, it says that" On each boat, deaths ran as high as five deaths a day." This was due to Food and water being contaminated and the disease spreading along the boat. Word of this spread to General Scott and he agreed to wait until the summer drought was over to travel in wagons. This did improve the death rate; However, Indians sill died.
North Stradbroke was originally known as the Indigenous name Minjerribah which means “Island in the Sun” in the Nunukul language (Moore, 2018). Furthermore, North Stradbroke is located off the coastal shores of Queensland and is the second largest sand island in the world, covering 275.2km² (Stradbrokeisland.com, 2018). Sibelco is a major sand mining, which is a practice that extracts sand from an open pit and can also be mined in other places such as inland dunes, beaches and drenched from the ocean and river beds (Envirotech-online.com, 2017). There are two main sources of income for North Stradbroke which are sand mining and tourism. In this report, the advantages and disadvantages of the closure of Sand Mining in North Stradbroke Island
I believe the U.S is exceptional primarily because there are some countries out there that don’t provide as much opportunities as the U.S does. John’s statement in order for the U.S to be exceptional, they would have to keep getting great. With that said, he would agree to the use of Manifest destiny. For the Native Americans, the use of Manifest Destiny would force them out of their living space. I do not feel like white settlers were justified for taking their land because people should not be forced to leave their home for other’s