Question

Using letters written by his father Edward, Henry Woodman published a “History of” this site that details legal action taken by William Dewees and his family to win compensation for destroyed property. In a final diary entry from this site, surgeon Albigence Waldo warns “curse fortune (10[1])for using you ill” to readers who “eat pumpkin pie and roast turkeys.” After an occurrence at this site, Isaac Potts told his wife that he suddenly (10[1])lost his belief that “no man could be a (10[1])soldier and a Christian (10[1])at the same time.” A (-5[1])series of requests addressed from this site (10[1])to Henry Laurens are signed “your (10[1])most obedient (10[1])servant.” (10[3]-5[2])Anthony Wayne was passed over to lead a “Grand Forage” (10[1])from this site in favor of Nathanael Greene. (10[2])The “Blue Book” was a (-5[1])compilation (10[3])of tactics (10[1])taught (10[1])at this (10[1])site (10[1])by Baron von Steuben. For 10 points, name this site outside Philadelphia (10[1])where the Continental Army spent the 1777 winter. ■END■ (10[2])

ANSWER: Valley Forge [prompt on Pennsylvania or PA until “Philadelphia” is read; prompt on Chester County or Montgomery County] (As told in Parson Weems’s Life of Washington, Potts, a practicing Quaker, had encountered Washington praying in the snow at Valley Forge.)
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Noah SheidlowerColumbia AIndiana A9710
Henry CafaroChicago CNorthwestern A10310
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Anuttam RamjiUC Berkeley BColumbia B106-5
Lexi TermanRutgers BMinnesota B10610
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Conor ThompsonIowa State AYale B10610
Eric WolfsbergStanford ADuke A11610
Stevie MillerMaryland AChicago B12410
Michael MaysImperial APurdue A12410
Vedul PalavajjhalaWUSTL BSouth Carolina A129-5
Jonathan LauJohns Hopkins AHouston A13010
Ryan SunUC Berkeley AToronto A13010
Walter ZhangBrown AYale A13010
Qingyu ZhangFlorida BNYU A13210
Joseph ChambersVirginia APenn A13310
Shardul RaoMinnesota ANorth Carolina A13510
Yared TadesseCornell BTexas A13610
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