Sheilah Vance

Musings from and events for Sheilah Vance, author of the award-winning books: Threshold to Valley Forge: The Six Days of the Gulph Mills Encampment, Becoming Valley Forge, Land Mines, Chasing the 400, and Creativity for Christians


Day 4: Dec. 16, 1777 — Tents arrive and British soldiers captured at Gulph Mills

On a cold and rainy December 16, 1777, the 11,000 soldiers in George Washington’s Continental Army at Gulph Mills and Rebel Hill had one solace — tents had arrived.  They had been exposed to the sn…

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