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One of the bleakest in contemporary memory, the winter of 1779-1780 was especially brutal. Not only intolerably cold with 28 documented snowfalls¹, but the Continental Army was also in sore shape.

Provisions were derisory, while the perpetual lack of horses inhibited the movement of artillery. The colonial economy was also on the verge of ruin: American paper currency was considered rubbish, and the decline in foreign trade threatened to upend an already-fragile mercantile system.

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Both civilians and soldiers alike were malnourished and war-weary, and Washington’s troops remained unpaid and meagerly clothed. Arguably worse, Congress had depleted all its resources, even the support pledged by France.

On December 1, 1779, General Washington’s miserable army trudged to Morristown, New Jersey, a location chosen for its proximity to British-occupied New York.

Deciding upon an area known as Jockey Hollow, the surrounding forest was quickly felled to erect 1,000 rudimentary log huts