Season 4, Episode 4 | Valley Forge: When the Revolution Almost Froze to Death
About this episode
This episode explores the challenges faced by the Continental Army during the harsh winter at Valley Forge and the implications of a weak government.
What Happens When an Army Freezes and a Government Can’t Supply It? Valley Forge is remembered as one of the great symbols of American endurance, but this episode asks a deeper constitutional question: what happens when a revolution depends on a government too weak to supply its own army? In this episode, co-hosts Savannah Eccles Johnston and Matthew Brogdon tell the story of the Continental Army’s brutal winter after the British captured Philadelphia. Washington chose to camp just 18 miles f...
More episodes of This Constitution
- Season 4, Episode 6 | When Americans Fought Americans: The Southern Campaign of the Revolution
- Season 4, Episode 5 | The Fourth-of-July Question America Needs to Ask
- Season 4, Episode 3 | How Do You Govern When You’re Also Fighting a War?
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