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Book

Patriots in petticoats : heroines of the American Revolution

Call Number

  • J 973.3 R (CEN)

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Edition

1st ed.

Publication Information

New York : Random House, c2004.

Physical Description

128 p. : ill., map ; 22 cm.

Summary

Profiles girls and women who participated in the American Revolution by refusing to buy British merchandise, collecting money, and even going to war as wives, nurses, spies, or soldiers.

Contents

  • Phillis Wheatley
  • Mercy Otis Warren
  • Mary Katharine Goddard
  • Esther Reed
  • Sarah Franklin Bache
  • Betsy Ross
  • Elizabeth Hutchinson Jackson
  • Kerenhappuch Turner
  • Polly Cooper
  • Nancy Morgan Hart
  • Rebecca Stillwell Willets
  • Prudence Cummings Wright
  • Mammy Kate
  • Martha Bell
  • Lydia Darragh
  • Emily Geiger
  • Nancy Ward
  • "Mad" Ann Trotter Bailey
  • Elizabeth "Betty" Zane
  • Dicey Langston
  • Sybil Ludington
  • Deborah Samson
  • Margaret Cochran Corbin
  • Mary Hays.

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