Active Fighting
1775- 1783
These women set a precedent for future generations of females wanting to fight, proving that women were capable of aiding in typically male practices.
Few women fought, but those that did, were greatly revered by future generations:
"It was not because the three-penny tax on tea was so exorbitant that our Revolutionary fathers fought and died, but to establish the principle that such taxation was unjust. It is the same with this woman's revolution; though every law were as just to woman as to man, the principle that one class may usurp the power to legislate for another is unjust, and all who are now in the struggle from love of principle would still work on until the establishment of the grand and immutable truth, "All governments derive their just powers from the consent of the governed."" -Susan B. Anthony, Women's Reformer
Active Women Fighters in the American Revolution
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"Read the fresh annals of our land the gathering dust of time.
Nor yet has fallen on the scroll to dim the tale sublime;
There woman's glory proudly shines, for willingly she gave
Her costliest offerings to uphold the generous and the brave
Who fought her country's battles well; and oft she periled life
To save a father, brother, friend, In those dark years of strife.
Whatever strong-armed man hath wrought, whatever he hath
won, That goal hath woman also reached, that action hath she done."
-Mary M. Chase (Source: Liberty's Daughters)