"I can assure those Gentlemen that it is a much easier and less distressing thing to draw remonstrances in a comfortable room by a good fire side than to occupy a cold bleak hill and sleep under frost and Snow without Cloaths or Blankets; however, although they seem to have little feeling for the naked, and distressed Soldier, I feel superabundantly for them, and from my Soul pity those miseries, [which], it is neither in my power to relieve or prevent."
–George Washington, letter to Henry Laurens, President of the Continental Congress, December, 1777
General Washington most likely wrote the lines above referring to the situation his army faced at ________________
"I can assure those Gentlemen that it is a much easier and less distressing thing to draw remonstrances in a comfortable room by a good fire side than to occupy a cold bleak hill and sleep under frost and Snow without Cloaths or Blankets; however, although they seem to have little feeling for the naked, and distressed Soldier, I feel superabundantly for them, and from my Soul pity those miseries, [which], it is neither in my power to relieve or prevent."
–George Washington, letter to Henry Laurens, President of the Continental Congress, December, 1777
General Washington most likely wrote the lines above referring to the situation his army faced at ________________
New York
Valley Forge
Trenton
Saratoga