Over 2,000 Continental Army soldiers died during the winter of 1777-1778 at Valley Forge from diseases like typhus, typhoid, and dysentery while they endured harsh conditions. Many fell ill and perished from infections and illnesses during their encampment where supplies were scarce and the troops suffered through the harsh winter without proper shelter or clothing. It was a low point for the Continental Army during the American Revolutionary War.

14. Over 2,000 men died
of typhus, typhoid,
dysentery, during the
winter of 1777-1778

15. A historical colour engraving from the
Bibliothèque Nationale de France in Paris
shows a victim of cholera.
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