Revolutionary Women!!

Many people knows about John Adams, Paul Revere, George Washington etc. But what about women??Did they had a significant role on the revolution???

Have you heard about Molly Pitcher or Ann Bailey?? Here is a brief information 
about them.


Ann Bailey: She was also known as Mad Anne.  
Enlisted in 1777 as Samuel Gay, three weeks later she was 
promoted to corporal. After this her men disguise 
was discovered and ran away.
A few months later, Bailey was found and tried
in court. She was finally sentenced to two 
months in jail, and discharged from the army. 








Molly Hays: Also known as Molly pitcher, she was a 
legendary water carrier along with another women 
named Margaret Corbin.
Molly took over her husband when he collapsed from 
heat.
One soldier recalls she kept firing the cannon even after
a British cannon ball blew off the lower part of her petticoat.












Margaret Corbin:  The other legendary water carrier.                            
She took over her husband's cannon when he was killed 
in battle and fired it until her arm was nearly torn apart by 
grapeshot (a small iron ball shot from a cannon).










These were only some of the most important revolutionary women who contributed to the
American Revolution. There were even others who maybe didn't fought but contributed 
by setting fire to their own property to keep loyalists from using it which was a great sacrifice.