Valley Forge

American  

noun

1. a village in SE Pennsylvania: winter quarters of Washington's army 1777–78.

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Valley Forge British  

noun

1. an area in SE Pennsylvania, northwest of Philadelphia: winter camp (1777–78) of Washington and the American Revolutionary Army

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Valley Forge Cultural  

1. A valley in eastern Pennsylvania that served as quarters for the American army in one winter (1777–1778) of the Revolutionary War. George Washington, who was commanding the army, had been forced to leave Philadelphia, and his troops suffered from the cold and from lack of supplies. Though many deserted, Washington managed to maintain the morale of the rest. He was aided by Baron von Steuben, a German officer on his staff, who trained the men in the soldiering practices of Europe.

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Example Sentences

Washington allegedly carried them while at Valley Forge and Yorktown, site of the 1781 British surrender that cleared the way for the creation of a new nation.

From The Wall Street Journal

“It’s been very hard not to participate in the big tech party,” said Dev Kantesaria, founder of Valley Forge Capital Management.

From The Wall Street Journal

During a hard winter at Valley Forge, which became for a time the fourth largest city in America, Washington was not always confident in his army’s survival, writing that his men would soon be “reduced to one or the other of these things; starve, dissolve or disperse in order to obtain subsistence in the best manner they can.”

From Los Angeles Times

They were the kind of veterans who — Gerald Nicosia tells the story in his history of Vietnam Veterans Against the War — greeted the antiwar veterans who had marched 86 miles from Morristown, New Jersey to Valley Forge, Pennsylvania, just like George Washington’s army in 1877.

From Salon

The campsite’s name is a reference to the Valley Forge Lodge, which operated in the area in the early 1900s.

From Los Angeles Times