Valley Forge, a village in Chester County, Pennsylvania, about twenty-four miles west of Philadelphia. It is noted as the place where Washington and his small army established their winter quarters after they had been driven out of Philadelphia by the British in 1777. The soldiers suffered severely for want of food and clothing. The soldiers built their own huts, but suffered greatly from cold and hunger. Men bound up their feet with rags and stood on guard, shivering all night without overcoats, and then went into camp to find no breakfast. The frozen paths traversed by the patrols were said to be marked with blood. Washington appealed in vain to Congress for supplies and clothing; but the commissary department was so incompetent that the necessary articles lay piled up in store all winter while the soldiers went without. In 1893 the legislature of Pennsylvania made an appropriation to make Valley Forge a public park. A monument has been erected to the memory of the soldiers who perished in camp. The old trenches thrown up by Washington's soldiers may still be traced. The stone house in which Washington established his headquarters stands yet in a fair state of preservation. The park has been enlarged to include 1,010 acres.