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Mouhamad-A
Well, craziest of all ideas i ever had. Go to the alps and live in the mountains for some months maybe 6? What do you suggest about it? I am aware of the risks involving life and death. Other than that?
I did winter cycling trip across scottish highlands last winter for 52 days. I have a winter mounteineering tent 4+season tent. And Have a reasonable wild camping experiance.
All i am looking for is travel partner and some tips on what do u recommend doing.
Cheers
Mo
Answer
That is quite easy to do: all countries which are in the Alps area have mounteneering Clubs (German Alpines Club/Austrian/Swiss/French/Club Alpino Italy) and they have a lot of cottages there. There is a huge number of trekking paths (from towns in the Valley and between cottages). There are some famous trekks: e.g. Munich/Germany crossing to Venice/Italy = appr. 15 days.
You need to be a member of one of the clubs which gives you the right to stay at this cottages.
You can also trekk with a tent (which does not really make sense with he infrastructure available), some towns and areas have limitations for "wild camping" e.g. St. Moritz in Switzerland.
In the summer there is an easier way: you need only a good sleeping back and a biwak-sack and just sleep where you want.
That is quite easy to do: all countries which are in the Alps area have mounteneering Clubs (German Alpines Club/Austrian/Swiss/French/Club Alpino Italy) and they have a lot of cottages there. There is a huge number of trekking paths (from towns in the Valley and between cottages). There are some famous trekks: e.g. Munich/Germany crossing to Venice/Italy = appr. 15 days.
You need to be a member of one of the clubs which gives you the right to stay at this cottages.
You can also trekk with a tent (which does not really make sense with he infrastructure available), some towns and areas have limitations for "wild camping" e.g. St. Moritz in Switzerland.
In the summer there is an easier way: you need only a good sleeping back and a biwak-sack and just sleep where you want.
what impact did the winter of Valley forge in 1777 - 1778 have?
Melissa
I don't get it....I've looked everywhere, online, and in my textbook, and it isn't in there.
Answer
Hi Susie, Valley Forge became famous not for any battle fought there but for the harsh and cruel conditions the Contiental Army had to endure. Not alone was lack of food a problem but also
disease, boredom ( no daily drills) and above all the severe winter conditions. When one reads about Vally Forge one finds it hard to believe that this situation was allowed to happen.
Here is the story. A week before Christmas '77 Washington's
army took up winter quarters at Valley Forge on the west side of the Schuylkill. Although the General's choice of location was sharply criticized, the site he had selected was central and easily defended. Then came a cruel race with time to get huts erected before the soldiers, barefoot and half naked, froze to death. Hundreds of horses did in fact starve to death, and for the army starvation was a mortal danger. "No meat, no meat!" was the constant wail. Improvements came about after Nathanael Greene assumed the duties of Quartermaster General on March 23rd.
Yet, despite the ever-present fear of mutiny, no real disaffection occurred. As Hessian Major Baurmeister conceded, the army was kept from disintegrating by the "spirit of liberty." Men and officers accepted their tragic plight with a sense of humor and extraordinary forbearance, but it was an ordeal that no army could be expected to undergo for long. Nathanael Greene wrote to General Washington, "God grant we may never be brought to such a wretched condition again" (The Spirit of 'Seventy Six0
The huts provided greater comfort than the tents used by the men when on campaign. But after months of housing unwashed men and food waste, these cramped quarters fostered discomfort and disease. Albigence Waldo complained, 'my Skin & eyes are almost spoiled with continual smoke.' Putrid fever, the itch, diarrhea, dysentery and rheumatism were some of the other afflictions suffered by the Continental troops.
On February 23, Friedrich Wilhelm Ludolf Gerhard Augustin, Baron von Steuben, arrived at Valley Forge to offer his military skills to the patriot cause. Washington assigned him the duties of Acting Inspector General and gave him the task of developing and carrying out a practical training program.
Upgrading military efficiency, morale, and discipline were as vital to the army's well-being as was its source of supply. The army had been handicapped in battle because unit training was administered from a variety of field manuals, making coordinated battle movements awkward and difficult. The soldiers were trained, but not uniformly.
Baron Friedrich von Steuben tirelessly drilled and scolded the regiments into an effective fighting force. Intensive daily training, coupled with von Steuben's forceful manner, instilled in the men renewed confidence in themselves and their ability to succeed.
Soon word of the British departure from Philadelphia brought a frenzied activity to the ranks of the Continental Army. On June 19, 1778, six months after its arrival, the army marched away from Valley Forge in pursuit of the British who were moving toward New York. An ordeal had ended. The war would last for another five years, but for Washington, his men, and the nation to which they sought to give birth, a decisive victory had been won -- a victory not of weapons but of will.
I hope you find this helpful.
Some sites you may find interesting are;
Valley Forge
Historic Valley Forge, from the Valley Forge Historical Society.
www.ushistory.org/valleyforge/ -
Valley Forge - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Valley Forge, Pennsylvania, was the site of the camp of the American Continental Army over the winter of 1777â1778 in the American Revolutionary War. ...
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Valley_Forg.
Good luck my friend.
Cathorio.
Hi Susie, Valley Forge became famous not for any battle fought there but for the harsh and cruel conditions the Contiental Army had to endure. Not alone was lack of food a problem but also
disease, boredom ( no daily drills) and above all the severe winter conditions. When one reads about Vally Forge one finds it hard to believe that this situation was allowed to happen.
Here is the story. A week before Christmas '77 Washington's
army took up winter quarters at Valley Forge on the west side of the Schuylkill. Although the General's choice of location was sharply criticized, the site he had selected was central and easily defended. Then came a cruel race with time to get huts erected before the soldiers, barefoot and half naked, froze to death. Hundreds of horses did in fact starve to death, and for the army starvation was a mortal danger. "No meat, no meat!" was the constant wail. Improvements came about after Nathanael Greene assumed the duties of Quartermaster General on March 23rd.
Yet, despite the ever-present fear of mutiny, no real disaffection occurred. As Hessian Major Baurmeister conceded, the army was kept from disintegrating by the "spirit of liberty." Men and officers accepted their tragic plight with a sense of humor and extraordinary forbearance, but it was an ordeal that no army could be expected to undergo for long. Nathanael Greene wrote to General Washington, "God grant we may never be brought to such a wretched condition again" (The Spirit of 'Seventy Six0
The huts provided greater comfort than the tents used by the men when on campaign. But after months of housing unwashed men and food waste, these cramped quarters fostered discomfort and disease. Albigence Waldo complained, 'my Skin & eyes are almost spoiled with continual smoke.' Putrid fever, the itch, diarrhea, dysentery and rheumatism were some of the other afflictions suffered by the Continental troops.
On February 23, Friedrich Wilhelm Ludolf Gerhard Augustin, Baron von Steuben, arrived at Valley Forge to offer his military skills to the patriot cause. Washington assigned him the duties of Acting Inspector General and gave him the task of developing and carrying out a practical training program.
Upgrading military efficiency, morale, and discipline were as vital to the army's well-being as was its source of supply. The army had been handicapped in battle because unit training was administered from a variety of field manuals, making coordinated battle movements awkward and difficult. The soldiers were trained, but not uniformly.
Baron Friedrich von Steuben tirelessly drilled and scolded the regiments into an effective fighting force. Intensive daily training, coupled with von Steuben's forceful manner, instilled in the men renewed confidence in themselves and their ability to succeed.
Soon word of the British departure from Philadelphia brought a frenzied activity to the ranks of the Continental Army. On June 19, 1778, six months after its arrival, the army marched away from Valley Forge in pursuit of the British who were moving toward New York. An ordeal had ended. The war would last for another five years, but for Washington, his men, and the nation to which they sought to give birth, a decisive victory had been won -- a victory not of weapons but of will.
I hope you find this helpful.
Some sites you may find interesting are;
Valley Forge
Historic Valley Forge, from the Valley Forge Historical Society.
www.ushistory.org/valleyforge/ -
Valley Forge - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Valley Forge, Pennsylvania, was the site of the camp of the American Continental Army over the winter of 1777â1778 in the American Revolutionary War. ...
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Valley_Forg.
Good luck my friend.
Cathorio.
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