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Many Americans are familiar with the st ory of George Washington&rsquo\;s Continental Army struggling through the cold\, snow\, and hunger of the Valley Forge winter. In New Jersey\, the M orristown winter of 1780 is remembered as having been even worse than Vall ey Forge. Aside from weather and supply problems\, however\, little has be en written on how these camps were planned\, built\, and maintained.
\nThis lecture tells the complete story of the winter encampments\, begin ning with the army&rsquo\;s first attempts at building rudimentary winter shelter outside of Boston in 1775 all the way to its sophisticated cantonm ent at New Windsor\, New York in 1783. While these locations never hosted a battle\, they provided crucial winter bases for the army and ultimately made decisive contributions to American victory in the War of Independence . \;
\nSteven Elliott is a lecturer in the Department of History at Rutgers University&ndash\;Newark and author of "Surviving the Winters: Housing Washington's Army during the American Revolution."
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