Via Billy
From atop a makeshift fort high above the Hudson
River, a young woman aimed a cannon at a mass of Hessian soldiers
swarming up the steep, rocky slopes and fired. Her husband, a Patriot
soldier, was just killed in battle and she stepped in to take his place.
Her name was Margaret Corbin.
At 24 years old, "Captain Molly” became one of the
first women to fight in the American Revolution — and later the first
woman to receive a life-long pension from Congress, making her the first
female veteran of the United States. For decades, Corbin’s grave site
at West Point — a granite monument within a sacred space of green — was
honored by all who passed through the storied cemetery.
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