Receive Your Orders

It is December 20, 1777. You are in the 7th Connecticut Regiment. Yesterday, your unit marched with the rest of the Continental Army into Valley Forge.

William Barnet is your Sergeant of the Guard. He has given you the day’s parole and countersigns. It is very important that you remember them while on sentry duty, especially the countersigns:

Parole: Haverhill

Countersigns: Concord. Cambridge.

Your Instructions

If you halt someone wearing a military uniform, quietly state the parole. Think of the parole as a sort of prompt, like a login ID on your computer today. If that person is really part of the Continental Army, they should respond with the day’s countersigns, which are like passwords. If they give you the correct countersigns, you can probably trust that person and let them pass. They are on your side.

However, civilians who are helping the army are not going to know either the parole or the countersigns. You will have to look for other evidence that you can trust them.

Are you ready?

Begin!