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 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 lost his belief that “no man could be a soldier and a Christian at the same time.” A series of requests addressed from this site to Henry Laurens are signed “your most obedient servant.” Anthony Wayne was passed over to lead a “Grand Forage” from this site in favor of Nathanael Greene. The “Blue Book” was a compilation of tactics taught at this site by Baron von Steuben. For 10 points, name this site outside Philadelphia where the Continental Army spent the 1777 winter. ■END■
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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