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Bohrer, Melissa Lukeman.
Glory, passion, and principle :
the story of eight remarkable women at the core of the American Revolution /
Melissa Lukeman Bohrer.
New York :
Atria Books,
2003.
xv, 271 p. :
ill. ;
24 cm.
Includes bibliographical references and index.
With the wind in her hair : Sibyl Ludington -- Breaking the chains of silence : Phillis Wheatley -- First advisers : Abigail Adams -- Her pen as sword : Mercy Otis Warren -- Spy games : Lydia Darragh -- A sister in arms : Molly Pitcher -- Soldier with a secret : Deborah Sampson -- A woman warrior : Nancy Ward.
Profiles eight American women who made significant contributions to the American Revolution, from sixteen-year-old Sybil Ludington, who rode twice as far as Paul Revere to alert patriots; to Deborah Samson, who posed as a man to fight as a Continental Army soldier; to Phyllis Wheatley, a slave and first-published African-American author.
Women
United States
History
18th century.
Women
Biography.
United States
History
Revolution, 1775-1783
Women.
United States
History
Revolution, 1775-1783
Biography.