Today. Thank you to Historic Alexandria for hosting and for the happy hour after this. We are going to try to keep it as close to 4 00 as possible. We can all get our beer we are looking forward to afterwards. This is the first inaugural, emerging revolutionary war symposium. We thank cspan for coming to film this. Hopefully, we will be an annual event. Keep your eyes out for next years symposium. To keep up with emerging revolutionary war and everything we are doing, check out our block, emergingrevolutionar emergingrevolutionarywar. Org. Find out everything we are up to. Check out our books. Rob and phil wrote a book about battles at lym s at lexington a concord. We have a couple books coming up early next year about valley forge. Keep up with us. This really im glad that we chose alexandria to have our inaugural symposium. Not only is it my hometown, but it was also George Washingtons hometown. Alexandria you can go to cities, new york, philadelphia, charlton, everywhere you go ther
[wind blowing] the temperature a bare 10 degrees above zero. The wind, a cutting 20 miles per hour. The date, almost any bleak day in january, 1778. The place, valley forge, pennsylvania. The event, famine, disease. Exhaustion, and disease. 11,000 soldiers of the American Revolutionary army starving and freezing in Winter Quarters. Shivering sentinels keeping an weary eye on the wellfed british forces, safe and warm and captured philadelphia. 20 miles to the southeast, on this bone chilling morning, 2000 of the ragtag colonials are without shoes, feet wrapped in rags. Onethird to onehalf of them are unfit for duty. Before this terrible winter is over, 3000 of them are to die. On the windswept hills and ridges, rolled log huts with clay, with floors of dirt provide the only shelter. In all the bleak, lonely whiteness, the only cover is the crimson of blood that stains the drifting snow. A revolutionary poet says this for them, bitter words and bitter memories of the war against king geo
Exhaustion. 11,000 soldiers of the American Revolutionary army starving and freezing in Winter Quarters. Shivering sentinels keeping an wary eye on that well fit british forces, safe and warm and captured philadelphia. 20 miles to the southeast. Morning,one chilling 2000 of the ragtag colonials are without shoes, feet wrapped in rags. One third to one half of them are unfit for duty. Before this terrible winter is over, 3000 of them are to die. On the windswept hills and ridges, huts of clay with floors of dirt provide the only shelter. In all the leak lonely , whiteness, the only cover is blood that stains the drifting snow. A revolutionary poet says this for them bitter words and , bitter memories of the war of king george as they left their bloody footprints on the snows of valley forge. Yes, the revolutionary war could have ended here. Yet somehow, this winter of despair becomes the turning point of the revolution. Corps] from it, comes defeat for the , the birth of the United Stat
Well speak to the man who played paddington in one of his tv incarnations. And following the latest global cyber attack, well get an updated assessment on the spread of the latest computer ra nsomwa re. Now on bbc news, its time for sportsday. Hello and welcome to sportsday im damian johnson. Defending Tour De France champion chris froome hasjust announced hes extending his contract with team sky. Britains Johanna Konta powers into the third round at the Pre Wimbledon Eastbourne tournament with a straight sets win. And usain bolt gets set to run his first race in europe in his farewell season. And he receives a heros welcome in slovakia. More on our top story in a memorable first, andy murray is the number one seed for wimbledon. He tops the draw because of its historical form on grass. The rankings do not apply for the all England Club Djokovic moves to number two, federer is up to third, nadal is full. The top four in the world will be kept apart in the drawer until the semifinals. I
Neighboring home and again, these homes are vacant. No injuries have been reported. This is in a pretty busy residential area, though, and a neighbor tells us she heard something outside and when she looked, she saw the house in flames. Seconds later, someone was running down the street and this was not the first time cleveland fire crews were out here on fulton road this morning. One hour prior to these homes catching fire, a clothing donation box just a half a mile from where i am caught fire and crews were out here putting out that fire. Arson crews are out here investigating this morning and looking for additional cameras to see if they can see anyone on that. If you know anything, call cleveland fire. I am working to get more information and i will bring it to you. Live in cleveland, meg shaw, newschannel 5. And we have some breaking news just coming into the live desk here. A reported smashandgrab at the Church Square pharmacy on 79th and euclid. And also breaking overnight, elle