DAR: Margaret Cochran Corbin
Jan 25, 2022•7 min
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Episode description
The first woman to receive a military pension, Margaret Corbin or “Captain Molly” as she was known went from widow to soldier at the Battle of Fort Washington. There, she took over a cannon previously manned by her husband, who earlier perished in the fight, and sustained injuries from grapeshot in the process. She was the only woman to serve as a guard in West Point’s Corps of Invalids.
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