Valley Forge to Monmouth, 1778

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Mark Edward Lender

U.S. Army Campaigns of the Revolutionary War
CMH Pub 71-48; 128 pages, maps, illustrations, appendix

Description: For eight long years, the Continental Army maintained itself in the field, despite fighting superior odds, starvation, diminished
resources, and divided leadership. Setbacks in the New York Campaign of 1776 nearly destroyed Washington’s army as the British drove it into Pennsylvania. Yet as 1777 opened, Washington changed the operational situation by seizing the initiative in a series of tactical victories at Trenton and Princeton, New Jersey. That fall, a British invasion into northern New York met with failure and capture at the hands of the Northern Army and militia at Saratoga, ultimately bringing France into war on the side of the United States. At the same time, Washington kept a British army penned up in Philadelphia while he instituted a training regimen for his army at their encampment in Valley Forge that winter. Trained under the tutelage of German-born Frederick von Steuben, the Continentals harried the British out of Philadelphia and back to New York City, fighting like regulars at Monmouth in 1778.

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