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GEORGE WASHINGTON AND THE PATIENCE OF POWER

the war in the South"; and, finally, to help bring about the war's
rather surprising conclusion, "patience that was at last rewarded
when the French navy briefly won control of the sea around Yorktown, enabling Washington to deliver the coup de grâce."12

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t least as crucial to American victory as waiting for the right
coalition of forces at the right moment was waiting's close
companion in the school of virtue: perseverance. During the
winter of 1777-78 at Valley Forge, twenty miles northwest of
Philadelphia, men froze and starved to death before their commander's eyes. As typhus, pneumonia, and dysentery ran through
the camp, the death rate soared. Hospital care was doubtful at
best, often riskier than trying to cope on one's own. For this reason, many soldiers stayed in their huts and spread their diseases
throughout the camp.13 From Valley Forge, General Washington
wrote of "Men without Cloathes to cover their nakedness, without Blankets to lay on, without Shoes, by which their Marches
might be traced by the Blood from their feet, and almost as often
without Provisions as with."14 His officers went home on furlough;
Washington stayed in camp with his men. And the snowy, frigid
winter of 1779-80 was even worse: Continental Army soldiers
encamped at Morristown, New Jersey, were reduced to eating
dogs, the bark from trees, and their boots.
Through the long years of war, Washington continually thought
of Mount Vernon and yearned to be there. He persevered in the
face of crippling supply and money problems, second-guessing
by Congress, and military setbacks, such as the British capture of
the American capital, Philadelphia (1777), and the fall of Charleston
and the destruction of Camden, in South Carolina (1780)-defeats
that made the Patriot cause look uncertain in the extreme.15
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