My list of five consisted of....
1) Trenton
2) Valley Forge
3) Ft. McHenry
4) Vicksburg
5) Gettysburg
After reading your point concerning the failed British campaign in the Chesapeake, I'll listen to talk of change, but Monmouth and the entire southern action post 1778 in the Revolutionary War doesn't take place without the winter camp and training at Valley Forge. Washington marched into that winter with a regular militia and left in the spring with an army. (Von Schtueben, spelling please forgive, regardless of your creatively doctored resume, thank you very much)
Keep in mind that these are military locations. Such actions as Little Bighorn, (an American Indian triumph in no uncertain terms) and various American Indian defeats are not being glossed over in a revisionist airbrushing of our history. The argument whether these actions DEFINE who we are as a nation has yet to be waged.
This also made me ponder non military locations that DEFINE us as a nation, and I could only come up with one concrete location: Independence Hall, Philadelphia, PA. Both the Declaration of Independence and the Constitution were drafted in the building, and there are no more crystallizing moments in our history as those. Thoughts?
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