How did women help in the Revolutionary War?

Answer 1

Women carried water to the soldiers, like Mary Ludwig Hays aka Molly pitcher. Some stayed home and worked in the fields and took care of the crops. Others went to aid their husbands. They worked as nurses or cooks. Some women even dressed up as men and fought in the battlefield.

Answer 2

At the battles of Lexington and Concord, women fired guns through windows at the Redcoats. They helped make supplies and helped the sick soldiers. Women like Molly Picther (Mary Ludwig Hayes McCaully, her real name) helped by bringing the soldiers water and loading cannons for them.

Answer 3

Women helped in the revolutionary war by serving as nurses or loading cannons and also they cleaned the mens uniforms (they were a great help just because they are women doesn't give them any disadvantages)

Answer 4

The American Revolution 1775-1783

During the American Revolution thousands of women took an active role both for the American and British military forces. They were called 'camp followers'. They performed a multitude of necessary tasks such as cooking, laundering, sewing uniforms, mending, nursing, reading and writing letters for wounded or illiterate soldiers, caring for children, providing comfort and assisting wherever they could. They were paid a minimal sum and were given half rations.

There are a handful of women who impersonated men and served active duty. There were also several women who performed during battles when they took over to the best of their ability for injured and fatally wounded men.

Women also acted as spies and risked their lives carrying vital information on horseback. They also relayed important information by a very active system of letter writing, sharing and passing along information amongst themselves through regular correspondence and also acting as gatekeepers for correspondence from the men who were in the heat of the conflict and their commanders who were stationed elswhere.

Answer 5

They carried water, they acted as nurses, they did the laundry and some manned the artillery.
Many acted as spies. Washington set up a spy network and one of the ways to send messages was to use laundry hanging on a clothes lines. A particular order or color gave a message. Women also passed on information that they heard at events where British officers attended.

Answer 6

Most women helped the patriots in the Revolutionary War serving as nurses for wounded solders.

A small percentage helped with the actual fighting.

A number of battles were fought by or with the help of militias. Militias were local groups of men who kept their guns at home. They would get together to fight a battle. A number of women joined militias.

The regular army took in young teen age boys. At that time people did not have the nutrition they have today. Girls did not develop as young as they do today. It was quite easy for some girls to disguise themselves as boys. A number of teen age girls joined the regular army. Only a few got caught.

Women on horseback would carry messages between Generals. Since women in England could not normally read and write, the British Generals did not suspect many American women could read the messages and memorize them. They could strip search the women and find nothing and then send them on their way.

A few women took over cannons during battle or when an enemy approached.

A number of women served as spies. They would visit the bedrooms of British Officers and report British war plans back to the Americans.

Since most of the work done by women was not official, official records simply do not exist.

Someone would need to go through old correspondence and old diaries to get to the true story.

Answer 7

Molly Pitcher brought water and fired cannons

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Answer 9

"Many women made ammunition from their household silver. And hundred off of women followed their husbands to the battlefield."