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Molly Pitcher depicted in 1859 engraving
- 1754–1763: French and Indian War. Seneca leader Queen Alliquippa is a key ally of the British.
- 1755: Cherokee leader Nancy Ward fights side-by-side with her husband at the Battle of Taliwa. When her husband is killed, she picked up his rifle and led the Cherokee to victory.
- 1760s: Hannah Witneg serves in the Royal Marines while disguised as a man. She is noted for serving with "fortitude and valor".[1]
- 1763: After the assassination of her husband, Gabriela Silang decided to continue his rebellion against Spain but was unsuccessful.
- 1767-1795: Reign of Ahilyabai Holkar, Indian queen of the Malwa kingdom. She personally led troops into battle.
- 1770s: Cherokee woman Cuhtahlatah causes her people to rally in battle by attacking the enemy after her husband was killed.[2]
- 1770s: Elizabeth Hutchinson Jackson, the mother of Andrew Jackson, treats and nurses sick and wounded Continental soldiers in American Revolutionary War on British prison ship.
- November 16, 1776: Margaret Corbin assists her husband in manning the cannons while fighting the British in battle in the American Revolutionary War. When her husband is killed, she mans the cannons alone.
- April 26, 1777: Sybil Ludington warns colonists that the British were burning the city of Danbury, Connecticut during the American Revolution.
- 1778: Baltazara Chuiza leads a rebellion against the Spanish in Ecuador.[3]
- 1778: Sikh princess Bibi Rajindar Kaur leads 3,000 soldiers to rescue her cousin who was defeated by Hari Singh.
- 1778: Molly Pitcher (born Mary Ludwig in 1754) married John Hays in 1769. Her husband fought for the Continental Army at the Battle of Monmouth (New Jersey) on June 28, 1778. During the battle, she brought pitchers of water to her husband and fellow soldiers, thus earning the appellation Molly Pitcher. When her husband succumbed to exhaustion, she picked up his rifle and fought against the British.
- 1780: Manuela Beltrán organizes a peasant revolt in Columbia.[4]
- 1780: Huillac Ñusca of the Kolla tribe rebels against the Spanish in Chile.
- 1782: Kate Barry warns the American militia that the British were approaching before the Battle of Cowpens. Her warning gives the colonists enough time to prepare and win the battle.
- 1782: Bartolina Sisa, an Aymara woman who led an indigenous uprising against the Spanish in Bolivia, is captured and executed.
- 1785: According to Thai legend, Chan and Mook, two sisters, help repel a Burmese invasion of Thailand by dressing as male soldiers and rallying the troops.
- October 25, 1785: Toypurina, a Tongva medicine woman, rebels against the Spanish, leading an attack against Mission San Gabriel Arcángel.
- 1793: Renée Bordereau disguises herself as a man and fights as a Royalist cavalier in the French Revolution.
- 1796: Sikh princess Bibi Sahib Kaur leads armies into battle against the British. She is the only Indian woman to win battles against a British general.
[edit] References
- ^ Salmonson, Jessica Amanda (1991). The Encyclopedia of Amazons. Paragon House, 270.
- ^ Salmonson, p. 65
- ^ Salmonson, p. 58
- ^ Salmonson, p. 32
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