Women Heroes of the American Revolution : 20 Stories of Espionage, Sabotage, Defiance, and Rescue.
Title:
Women Heroes of the American Revolution : 20 Stories of Espionage, Sabotage, Defiance, and Rescue.
Author:
Casey, Susan.
ISBN:
9781613745861
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Physical Description:
1 online resource (244 pages)
Series:
Women of Action
Contents:
Front Cover -- Front Flip -- Title Page -- Half Title -- Dedication -- Copyright -- Contents -- Author's Note -- Introduction: The American Revolution -- Part One: Resisters, Supporters, and Rescuers -- Penelope Barker: Steeping the Brew -- Phillis Wheatley: The Slave Who Proclaimed a Revolution -- Mary Katherine Goddard: A Patriotic Publisher -- Elizabeth Hutchinson Jackson: Mother to the End -- Esther Reed and Sarah Franklin Bache: Supporters of the Troops -- Elizabeth Burgin: The Rescuer Who Became a Fugitive -- Part Two: Spies -- Lydia Darragh: The Listener Who Alerted the General -- Anna Smith Strong: Petticoats and Handkerchiefs -- Dicey Langston: A Whig in a Land of Tories -- Part Three: Saboteurs -- Prudence Wright: Leader of the Pitchfork Brigade -- Sybil Ludington: On Star Under the Stars -- Mary Lindley Murray: Wine, Cake, and a Getaway -- Grace and Rachel Martin: Masquerading Hostesses -- Part Four: Soldiers and Defenders of the Home Front -- Elizabeth "Betty" Zane: Fleet-Footed Girl to the Rescue -- Deborah Sampson Gannett: Undercover Soldier -- Rebecca Motte: A Straight-Arrow Heroine -- Martha Bratton: "It was I who did it." -- Part Five: Legendary Ladies -- Molly Pitcher: "Possible Mollies" Mary Ludwig Hayes and Margaret Cochran Corbin -- Mammy Kate: Unlikely Rescuer -- Nancy Hart: The War Woman -- Acknowledgments -- Glossary -- Notes -- Bibliography -- Index -- Back Flip -- Back Cover.
Abstract:
A commemoration of the brave yet largely forgotten women who served in America's War of Independence Every schoolchild knows about Paul Revere's 20-mile ride to warn that the British were coming. Far fewer know that 16-year-old Sybil Ludington rode twice as far on her horse Star in order to help her father, Colonel Ludington, muster his scattered troops to fight a marauding enemy. Few know about Martha Bratton, who blew up a supply of gunpowder to keep it from approaching British troops and boldly claimed, "It was I who did it!" Susan Casey gives Ludington, Bratton, and 18 other remarkable girls and women the spotlight they deserve in this lively collection of biographical profiles. These women took action in many ways: as spies, soldiers, nurses, water carriers, fundraisers, writers, couriers, and more. Women Heroes of the American Revolution brings a fresh new perspective to their stories resulting from interviews with historians and with descendants of participants of the Revolution and features ample excerpts from primary source documents. Also included are contextualizing sidebars, images, source notes, and a bibliography, making this an invaluable resource for any student's or history buff's bookshelf.
Local Note:
Electronic reproduction. Ann Arbor, Michigan : ProQuest Ebook Central, 2017. Available via World Wide Web. Access may be limited to ProQuest Ebook Central affiliated libraries.
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