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Women in the American Revolution played various roles depending on their social status, race and political views. The American Revolutionary War took place as a result of increasing tensions between Great Britain and the Thirteen Colonies. American colonists responded by forming the Continental Congress and going to war with the British. The ...
She is also the author of "Sentiments of an American Woman," an essay that intended to rouse colonial women to join the fight against the British. She was able to use her marriage to Joseph Reed to help her gain more influence and resources. [9] Deborah Sampson later emerged as a symbol for female involvement in the Revolutionary War. Rather ...
Deborah Sampson Gannett, also known as Deborah Samson or Deborah Sampson, [1] (December 17, 1760 – April 29, 1827) was a Massachusetts woman who disguised herself as a man and served in the Continental Army during the American Revolutionary War.
Margaret Cochran Corbin (November 12, 1751 – January 16, 1800) was a woman who fought in the American Revolutionary War. [1] On November 16, 1776, her husband, John Corbin, was one of 2800 American soldiers defending Fort Washington in northern Manhattan from 8,000 attacking Hessian troops under British command. Margaret was too nervous to ...
This category lists articles about women involved in the American Revolution. ... Mary Hays (American Revolutionary War) Ann Wood Henry; Homespun movement; Anne Hupp; J.
Mary Lindley Murray (1720 – December 25, 1782) is known in the American Revolution as the Quaker woman who in 1776 held up British General William Howe after the British victory against American forces at Kips Bay.
Polly Cooper was an Oneida woman from the New York colony who took part in an expedition to aid the starving Continental Army during the American Revolutionary War. She was among 47 Oneida and Seneca people who carried bushels of corn 250 miles (400 km) to Valley Forge from late April into May 1778. She taught them how to make a soup with the ...
This is an accepted version of this page This is the latest accepted revision, reviewed on 12 November 2024. Nickname for women fighting in the American Revolutionary War Not to be confused with Moll Pitcher. Print of Molly Pitcher (Currier and Ives) Molly Pitcher is a nickname given to a woman who fought in the American Revolutionary War. She is most often identified as Mary Ludwig Hays, who ...