Revolutionary War Women

Revolutionary war women were able to play a significant role specifically because men looked down upon them.

Don't be fooled, and don't let your kids be fooled by a false version of the history of Christianity.

Web pages, forum posts, and blogs have all picked up on the fase Christian history promulgated by The Da Vinci Code, and even Glenn Beck repeated it as if it were fact.

What was the early church really like? How did we really end up with the Christianity that exists today? Even more importantly, how do we know?

In the Beginning Was the Logos, by Revolutionary-War.net webmaster Paul Pavao, proves that you can trust your Bible, that Jesus was proclaimed as divine from the beginning, and it puts original sources in your hand, letting you put the lie to the so-called experts who would deny that Jesus is exactly who he said he was.

Because women were considered too simple to understand complex military strategy during the American Revolution, men spoke freely around them. Thus, they made great spies, providing food and peddling wares to enemy camps while listening for important information.

Ann Bates is one such person. A Philadelphia schoolteacher, loyal to the crown, she assumed a false name and pretended to peddler while counting Continental Army troops and supplies for the British.

Unfortunately, this means that the most significant women in the Revolutionary War may be completely unknown to us. Many were probably never caught spying, and their secret role may never have been documented.

"Miss Jenny," for example, is known only from a letter written from Baron Ottendorf to the British general, Sir Henry Clinton. We don't even know her real name!

How many others played similar roles in the American Revolution may never be known.

It was not only spies, however, that affected the Revolution. Some women, like Abigail Adams, wife of future president John Adams, supported the cause in other ways, nursing injured soldiers, providing supplies, and even creating much needed ammunition!

• Lydia Darragh, a pacifist Quaker like Betsy Ross, made her mark in history by acting when opportunity arose.
• Deborah Read Franklin was Benjamin Franklin's wife and companion for 44 years.
• Dicey Langston's exploits earned her the nickname "Daring Dicey."
• Deborah Samson actually fought for the colonial army.
• Mercy Otis Warren advised presidents and generals while writing political plays, becoming perhaps the most influential woman in American history.
• Martha Washington was the first first lady, and the support for commander-in-chief George Washington throughout the war.

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And we must not forget to mention Betsy Ross, the most famous of Revolutionary War women, who inspired the cause by producing the first American flag in the summer of 1776. (You might also want to read the story of the Star-Spangled Banner, though that famous flag was not sewn by Betsy Ross.)