S8 Ep328: SURVIVAL AT VALLEY FORGE AND A NEW ARISTOCRACY Colleague Joseph Ellis. At Valley Forge, the army suffered from congressional neglect until Nathaniel Greene reorganized the quartermaster corps to provide food. Ellis describes the survivors as a "virtuous a
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🗓️ 17 January 2026
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| 0:57.5 | I'm John Batchew, Professor Joseph Ellis, whose new book is The Cause, the American Revolution and its discontents, emphasis on the discontents, because 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 |
| 1:03.4 | opinion is that this is a collective endeavor that needs discipline and a Congress that |
| 1:10.2 | supports it. Congress has other ideas when it meets, |
| 1:14.3 | and chiefly not to fund the army, but to count on the militia, what the professor calls the |
| 1:19.4 | myth of the militia. It is now Valley Forge, a place I'm very familiar with, having been a Boy Scout |
| 1:25.6 | on Valley Forge many times. I recommend |
| 1:28.5 | everyone to visit to imagine how cold it was 7778. Professor, I come to Valley Forge freshly |
| 1:36.4 | because now I see that Congress did not share Washington's opinion. The British have camped in Philadelphia. Don't bother to attack Washington. |
| 1:48.4 | Washington's soldiers, what's left of the Continental Army, are without food, without blankets, |
| 1:54.7 | without hope at all. Washington calls on Nathaniel Green again. How does Green help him? |
| 2:01.6 | Green takes over the responsibility for the quartermaster corps. |
| 2:06.6 | There's nobody to do the job. |
| 2:08.1 | He does it. |
| 2:09.4 | And he manages to send foraging patrols out further, eventually to provide enough food. |
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