CAMP AT VALLEY FORGE
Steuben helps drill the men
Washington grieved over the suffering of his men, but never lost heart. All the long winter through, with the aid of General Steuben, a noble German officer, he drilled his men. In the spring when the British started back to New York, he gave them such a bayonet charge at Monmouth, New Jersey (1778), they were glad to escape that night, instead of stopping to rest and bury their dead.
73. The Crowning Victory at Yorktown. For the next three years the British army remained in New York, not daring to come out and attack Washington.
GEORGE WASHINGTON
From the Gibbs-Channing portrait painted by Gilbert Stuart, the first portrait of Washington, now in the possession of Samuel P. Avery of New York
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