This is CBS Eye on the World. I'm John Batsworth, Professor Joseph Fellas, who's notebook is

The Cause, the American Revolution and its discontents, emphasis on the discontents, because

the everyone involved in the rebellion, so called by the London side, the cause by the

American side, has other opinions than what's happening in front of them. Washington's

opinion is that this is a collective endeavor that needs discipline and a Congress that

supports it. Congress has other ideas when it meets, and chiefly not to fund the army,

but to count on the militia, what the professor calls the myth of the militia. It is now Valley

Forge, a place I'm very familiar with, having been a boy scout on Valley Forge many times.

I recommend everyone to visit to imagine how cold it was, 7778. Professor, I come to

Valley Forge freshly, because now I see that Congress did not share Washington's opinion.

The British have with have, have camped Philadelphia, don't bother to attack Washington.

Washington's soldiers, what's left of the continental army are without food, without blankets,

without hope at all. Washington calls on Nathaniel Green again. How does Green help him?

Green takes over the responsibility for the quartermaster corps. There's nobody to do

the job. He does it, and he manages to send Forge patrols out further, eventually to

provide enough food. This comes by the time not until April. About 1200 American soldiers

die of malnutrition or exposure during the winter of Valley Forge. It really is a kind

of, you know, it's a time for what I call the few. These are the people who stay the

corps, who survive, who endure. Green's performance is brilliant in trying to recover the food

supply, but it's at a moment when you realize that this is the pattern now. The Congress

is not going to provide the men or the money necessary to win the war outright. It's going

to be a war of attrition, it's going to be a marathon, and the people who survive Valley

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