Acknowledgements: Much of the material for this article was taken from Thomas J. McGuire’s “The Philadelphia Campaign, Volume 2 – Germantown and the Roads to Valley Forge,” published in ...

VALLEY FORGE >> The last four months of 1777 were a trying time for Gen. George Washington and his Continental Army. In August, a British army commanded by Gen. William Howe sailed from the ...

The four Valley Forge veterans are among 96 Revolutionary War soldiers who settled in Madison County in the early 1800s -- more than any other county in Alabama.