# BFW Revisited: Valley Forge Page: https://stenobird.com/podcast/ben-franklin-s-world-320219/bfw-revisited-valley-forge-2 Text version: https://stenobird.com/podcast/ben-franklin-s-world-320219/bfw-revisited-valley-forge-2.md Podcast: [Ben Franklin's World](https://stenobird.com/podcast/ben-franklin-s-world-320219) Published: 2026-05-26T09:00:00+00:00 Episode link: http://www.benfranklinsworld.com Audio file: https://episodes.captivate.fm/episode/153585a2-bd89-41f6-b0da-f4fab0cface3.mp3 Processing state: not_requested JSON: https://stenobird.com/v1/public/podcasts/ben-franklin-s-world-320219/episodes/bfw-revisited-valley-forge-2 Duration seconds: 3947 ## Resource Most of us learned the same story: During the winter at Valley Forge, George Washington's army suffered and endured. Ragged soldiers huddled together in frozen huts and gnawed on shoe leather for food. But what if that story is mostly myth? Military historian Ricardo Herrera , author of Feeding Washington's Army: Surviving the Valley Forge Winter of 1778 , reveals what was really happening during the winter of 1777–1778. Valley Forge wasn't a place of frozen inactivity, it was a hub of military operations. The army's survival depended not on virtue and willpower alone, but on the armed foraging columns Washington sent into the Pennsylvania countryside to seize food, horses, and supplies from the civilians he was fighting to protect. Rick’s Website | Book | Show Notes: https://www.benfranklinsworld.com/348 RECOMMENDED NEXT EPISODES 🎧 Episode 158: The Revolutionaries' Army 🎧 Episode 189: The Little Ice Age 🎧 Episode 301: Innoculation to Vaccination, Part 1 🎧 Episode 302: Innoculation to Vaccination, Part 2 🎧 Episode 332: Occupied Philadelphia 🎧 Episode 333: Occupied Yorktown SUPPORT OUR WORK 🎁 Make a Donation to Ben Franklin’s World REQUEST A TOPIC πŸ“¨ Topic Request Form πŸ“« liz@benfranklinsworld.com WHEN YOU'RE READY πŸ—žοΈ BFW Gazette Newsletter πŸ‘©β€πŸ’» Join the BFW Listener Community 🌍 Join the History Explorers Club TAKE THE QUIZ 🧭 Discover How You Explore History (under 2 minutes) πŸ‘‰ https://www.benfranklinsworld.com/quiz LISTEN 🎧 🍎 Apple Podcasts πŸ’š Spotify 🎢 Amazon Music πŸ›œ Pandora CONNECT πŸ¦‹ Liz on Bluesky πŸ‘©β€πŸ’» Liz on LinkedIn πŸ›œ Liz’s Website SAY THANKS πŸ’œ Leave a review on Apple Podcasts πŸ’š Leave a rating on Spotify * Book links are affiliate links. Every purchase supports the podcast. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices ## Actions - request_transcript: `POST https://stenobird.com/v1/public/podcasts/ben-franklin-s-world-320219/episodes/bfw-revisited-valley-forge-2/transcription-requests` β€” Idempotently request low-priority transcript generation for this episode. - read_markdown: `GET https://stenobird.com/podcast/ben-franklin-s-world-320219/bfw-revisited-valley-forge-2.md` β€” Read the agent-friendly Markdown representation of this episode resource. A page view does not enqueue transcription. Agents should invoke `request_transcript` explicitly when they need this episode processed. ## Transcript Full transcripts are not published on public pages unless there is a clear rights basis.