Our Founding Mothers of the Revolutionary War

Remember the Ladies

Revolutionary badass Molly Pitcher (Mary Hays)

On March 12, 1776, a public notice ran in the Baltimore, Maryland, local newspapers acknowledging the extraordinary contribution made by women to the Revolutionary cause. The notice proclaimed:

“The necessity of taking all imaginable care of those who may happen to be wounded in the country’s cause urges us to address our humane…