Document E states that soldiers were forced to work in the hardest working conditions. When temperatures reached 20 to 30 below zero, they are still forced to work on the wall. Sometimes they won’t be fed for a really long time and they would die from hunger! A common sickness that made workers of the wall is Hypothermia. It is caused of the extreme cold temperatures.
Also, about ⅛ soldiers who went to Valley Forge, died (Doc A). Soldiers suffered through severe weather and had little protection against it. In an engraving by Henry Powell, it shows soldiers standing outside standing in a severe snowstorm without coats and shoes(Doc B). Also, the weather was so bad, a horse died.
You can also see a dead horse on the floor which shows how horrible the conditions are. Also there’s not a lot of soldiers, which might of been because they became ill or possibly died. In the next piece of evidence you can see a diary
Captives were given limited food and unsanitary water. This type of march lasted about eight months gathering hundreds more captives along the way from camp to camp until they reached the Yalu River. By November, random executions poor sanitation and diseases had taken out hundreds of soldiers. Because American soldiers were still wearing what was left of the uniforms they were captured in, the sub-zero temperatures killed more soldiers from frostbite. Lt. Rountree stated the following, "By the early summer of 1951, we had lost more than 400 of our original group of 778 men.
You probably couldn’t fathom, or understand what it was like a fort Mandan, It was really rough and really really cold. Imagine a cold day to you like 45-15 % Fahrenheit right? Now Imagine 0%, Now - 45! That is how cold they took it. They spent their days writing, studying and trading with the locals.
They stayed in the same area in the dead of winter in huts such as the soldiers dwelled in. They stated the huts were not necessarily comfortable but not cold enough where one might freeze to death. Each winter varies and from one year to the next temperatures may be colder or harsher than the year before. The volunteers that conducted this experiment were probably fully clothed and possessed all the proper necessities needed as well. So although they tried to reenact the lives these soldiers lived; it doesn’t necessarily mean they did not experience harsh living conditions.
Noel F. Busch states, “10% of soldiers had died.” (Busch, 1974). According to researchers, a tenth of the people, about 2,000 people, had died from December to June. Although there was a 90% chance of survival, there is still a slight chance of death. If the soldiers do not want to be a part of this, they should leave.
The freezing soldiers lay around on the cold hard ground; some are wrapped in their tattered rags while others are vomiting, having fatigue and starving from lack of food. Despite these grim conditions, however, their ambitions towards freedom disguised their miserable life in camp. The winter of 1777 at Valley Forge was tough for Washington and his men. They lived in extremely poor weather conditions with a deficient amount of resources to stay alive. Diseases were also spreading, and the army was in desperate need of money if they even wanted to dream of defeating Britain.
The German soldiers forced many prisoners out of one camp and made them run to an abandoned town, and if they stopped running or fell, the soldiers would shoot them. When at the town they let the prisoners die, and they didn’t give them any place to sleep or keep warm in the snow. They shoved all of them onto a train where all they had was a blanket each, but snow covered them so it didn’t do any good. “A thick layer of snow was accumulating on our blankets”( pg. 96). Also, they didn’t give them any food, and if they did it would be just bread pieces that they threw into the car for their own amusement.
She also said “But conditions were harsh. The barracks-like housing was awful. The wind would blow dirt in through the doors and windows.” which also shows that it was hard for them because they had dirt blowing in their face and positions which is a horrible experience. Document G states “The weather was like an oven in summer and a freezer in winter.
Hitler’s plan was to invade the Russian territory before the winter sets in. The commander in chief thought “that the Red Army could be defeated in two or three months” time, and by the end of October, they would have conquered the European regions of Russia (Royde-Smith). They never thought that the war would last for another three years and did not prepare for the winter that had yet to come. The ‘German planners had failed to equip their troops for winter warfare … sufficient food and medicines… [and] outran their supply lines” (Invasion of Soviet Union). By December of 1941, the Red Army had recovered a bit from the millions that was lost on the first few days of war.
They see the Ground stained with blood and the carcasses left behind, Some are even burnt that nothing is left but their skeleton and some cloth that is stained on their rib cage and their cranium. Nothing left as the soldiers look onto no man's land but the horrific sight of what battle their was there and what battle their will be for their
“Wages dropped and working conditions worsened” (“Harriet Hanson Robinson”). This is why many of the valued mill girls started to fight back. Lowell, a man who ran his own mill, gave young women a safe place to live and work in ,because they were all very valuable and important to his work. He provided a safe work environment and a secure place to sleep in at night. As a mill girl, having a safe place to live in was important, but textile mills began to drop the safe and respectable ways they ran things.
David Laskin’s The Children’s Blizzard explains the devastating force of an intense blizzard, which caught several people unprepared, and it tells the tragic stories of these people. On January 12, 1888 a massive blizzard struck the center of North America, killing between 250 to 500 people and affecting thousands. There were many factors that made this blizzard exceptionally deadly. Many farmers and children who were outside were unprepared to deal with any cold conditions, “a day when children had raced to school with no coats or gloves and farmers were far from home doing chores they had put off during the long siege of cold” (Laskin 2).
Sadly, it is either smoke in the lungs, or freezing to death. The soldiers choose smoke. Either way they have to suffer. In document c and b it shows the cold, it said it was a big factor in the war.
