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Women Of Revolution

"Revolutionary women . . . shared with cheerfulness and gaiety privations and sufferings to which the situation of their country exposed them. In every stage of this severe trial, they displayed virtues that have not always been attributed to their sex. With a ready acquiescence, with a firmness always cheerful, and a constancy that never lamented all the sacrifices . . . they yielded up the conveniences furnished by wealth and commerce, consenting to share the produce of their labour. They even gave up without regret a considerable portion of the covering designed for their own families, to supply the wants of a distressed soldiery; and heroically suppressed the involuntary sigh which the departure of their brothers, sons and husbands for camp, rendered from their bosoms."

--- Chief Justice John Marshall (1804)

Women were very important in the Revolutionary War. Even though they aren't really recognized as much as George Washington or Benedict Arnold, they helped a lot. If it weren't for these women we wouldn't have the country that we have today.

                             

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