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Valley Forge Visitor Center. The park's visitor center includes a museum with artifacts from the American Revolutionary War, an interactive muster roll of Continental soldiers encamped at Valley Forge, ranger-led gallery programs and walks, a story telling program, a visitor information desk, and a store for books and souvenirs.
[3] [4] The regiment camped at Valley Forge in the winter of 1777-78 and at Middlebrook in the winter of 1778-79 and participated in the Battle of Monmouth. The regiment remained in the service of the Continental Army until late 1779 when redeployed Virginia. [5] [3]
Third Independent Maryland Company, Worcester County, 1776 [25] Fourth Independent Maryland Company, Talbot County, 1776 [26] Fifth Independent Maryland Company, St. Mary's County, 1776 [27] Sixth Independent Company, Dorchester County (Thomas Woolford), 1776 [28] [29] Seventh Independent Company, Queen Anne's and Kent Counties, 1776 [30]
On the other side of the state, Pittsburgh's heavy industry provided significant quantities of weapons and ammunition. The Fort Pitt Works near Pittsburgh made mammoth iron castings for giant siege howitzers and mortars, among the largest guns in the world. The foundry produced 1,193 guns (15 percent of the total U.S. wartime artillery ...
The National Memorial Arch is a monument located in Valley Forge National Historical Park of Upper Merion Township, Pennsylvania. The memorial arch honors the arrival of General George Washington and the Continental Army at Valley Forge, which was the site of their military camp during the winter of 1777–78. Construction on the structure ...
At 4:00 pm, one company of infantry, the depot guard, several cavalry companies, and Battery F found that Jackson's troops blocked the Valley Turnpike ahead of them at Middletown. After Captain Hampton and the other officers conferred, the small Union force retreated south to Strasburg, covered by Battery F's four Parrott rifles.
The General Friedrich Von Steuben Headquarters is a historic house on Pennsylvania Route 23 in Valley Forge National Historical Park in Chester County, Pennsylvania.Built about 1770, it has been advanced as a possible residence of Baron Friedrich von Steuben (1730-1794), the Prussian drill-master of Continental Army troops during the 1777-78 Valley Forge encampment.
The 11th Virginia Regiment was a Continental Army regiment that fought in the American Revolutionary War.. Authorized by the Second Continental Congress on 16 September 1776, it was organized on 3 February 1777 and consisted of four companies from the Virginia counties of Loudoun, Frederick, Prince William, and Amelia; Captain Daniel Morgan's Independent Rifle Company from Fauquier County; and ...