GOT CORBIN?!
BRAVE! STRONG! COURAGEOUS!
VOTE MARGARET CORBIN FOR THE MOST VALUABLE WOMAN OF THE REVOLUTIONARY WAR!!!
SHE FIRED THE CANNON!
- After her husband was killed, Margaret took over firing the cannon alone!
- Her cannon was the last to stop firing!
SHE WAS WOUNDED SEVERELY BUT SHE STILL LIVED!
- Margaret was wounded with three musket balls and a grapeshot ( small iron balls fired together from a cannon).
- Her left arm was almost separated from her body!
SOURCES:
1.)http://hubpages.com/hub/Margaret-Corbin-Revolutionary-War-Soldier
2.) http://www.awm.lee.army.mil/research_pages/margaret_corbin.htm
http://www.history.org/history/teaching/enewsletter/volume7/nov08/women_revarmy.cfm
3.) http://www.history.org/history/teaching/enewsletter/volume7/nov08/women_revarmy.cfm
4.) http://www.nwhm.org/education-resources/biography/biographies/margaret-cochran-corbin/
Designed by:
Kendal Preston, Hudson Mass, and Keefer Ericksen.