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Sheilah Vance

Sheilah Vance

A lifelong resident of the Valley Forge, Pennsylvania, area, Sheilah Vance is a practicing attorney and author of three novels, including Becoming Valley Forge, which won the award for Regional Fiction, 2016 Next Generation Indie Book Awards, and three non-fiction books, including Six Days in December: General George Washington’s and the Continental Army’s Encampment on Rebel Hill, December 13–19, 1777. She has a J.D. from Georgetown University and a B.A. in Communications from Howard University. A member of the Friends of Valley Forge, she speaks extensively about the Philadelphia Campaign of the Revolutionary War. Visit her at www.becomingvalleyforge.com.

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Historic Sites, Primary Sources, The War Years (1775-1783) November 5, 2019 November 4, 2019

Valley Forge’s Threshold: The Encampment at Gulph Mills

William Trego’s painting The March to Valley Forge is iconic. Where the Continental Army marched from has been largely overlooked. That march was from The…

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