Molly Pitcher

We read about Molly Pitcher in my Historical Figures book.  Molly Pitcher's husband was in the Army and was part of an Artillery Battery.  They fought in the Revolutionary War.  She started by doing the laundry and doing household chores.  By lunchtime it was really hot out.  Some of the soldiers had passed out.  Molly went to the stream to get them water.   When her husband died in combat she took over doing his job in the Battery.

This is important because she was one of the few women who fought with the male soldiers.  Women weren't supposed to fight in combat back then.  It is important to hear these stories because men didn't think that women were their equals and so they didn't often write down what they did.  My last post was about Mulan.  Mulan is another example of how women weren't thought of as equals.  She had to pretend to be a man to get to fight for her country.  And at the end when they found out that she was a women they couldn't believe it.