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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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