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the encampment. [ ] that winter, starvation and disease killed more than soldiers [ ] and perhaps as many as horses. [ ] the men suffered from continual, gnawing hunger and cold. washington ordered that soldiers' rations include either one to one-and-a-half pounds of flour or bread, one pound of salted
beef or fish, or three-quarters pound of salted pork, one gill of whiskey or spirits, or one-and-a-half pounds of flour or bread, a half-pound of bacon or salted pork, a half-pint of peas or beans, and one gill of whiskey or spirits. [ ] in practice, however, the army could not reliably supply the full...
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