Revolutionary War
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“…a wonderful and insightful contribution to the historical scholarship of the American Revolution.”
Thanks to author and Revolutionary War expert Shirley Green, who ancestors were at the Gulph Mills Encampment, for her comments on my upcoming book! “Threshold To Valley Forge delivers a wonderful and insightful contribution to the historical scholarship of the American Revolution. With painstaking care and research, Sheilah Vance provides a comprehensive study of the Continue reading
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Book launch author talk for Threshold to Valley Forge: The Six Days of the Gulph Mills Encampment
Join me in person or on line at my the book launch author talk for my new book, Threshold to Valley Forge: The Six Days of the Gulph Mills Encampment, on Tuesday, March 4, 630-730, at the American Revolution Institute of the Society of the Cincinnati, Anderson House, 2118 Massachusetts Avenue, NW, Washington, DC! You Continue reading
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Dec. 12 — A tired Continental Army begins its delayed march in to Gulph Mills
After being interrruped on the 11th by some 3000 foraging British soldiers, General Washington and a tired, cold, and hungry Continental Army readied for another try to march into Gulph Mills. They started their day at the Swede’s Ford, at present day Norristown on the east side of the Schuylkill River and Bridgeport on the Continue reading
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The Continental Army plans its March into Gulph Mills, 12/10/1777
We are just about to start my annual blogging about the Gulph Mills Encampment (GME) during the Revolutionary War, which occurred from December 13 to 19, 1777. I’ve been writing about the Gulph Mills Encampment since 2011, when I really discovered and started studying it, because it is a very much overlooked, yet very important Continue reading
