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  2. Molly Pitcher - Wikipedia

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    This is an accepted version of this page This is the latest accepted revision, reviewed on 12 November 2024. Nickname for women fighting in the American Revolutionary War Not to be confused with Moll Pitcher. Print of Molly Pitcher (Currier and Ives) Molly Pitcher is a nickname given to a woman who fought in the American Revolutionary War. She is most often identified as Mary Ludwig Hays, who ...

  3. African-American music - Wikipedia

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    Various black orchestras began to perform regularly in the late 1890s and the early 20th century. In 1906, the first incorporated black orchestra was established in Philadelphia. [41] In the early 1910s, all-black music schools, such as the Music School Settlement for Colored and the Martin-Smith School of Music, were founded in New York. [42]

  4. Bessie Smith - Wikipedia

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    Smith in 1936. The 1900 census indicates that her family reported that Bessie Smith was born in Chattanooga, Tennessee, in July 1892. [2] [3] [4] The 1910 census gives her age as 16, [5] and a birth date of April 15, 1894, which appears on subsequent documents and was observed as her birthday by the Smith family.

  5. Thomas Kilgore - Wikipedia

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    Thomas Kilgore Headstone - Found at the Villines Cemetery in Cross Plains. Thomas Kilgore (1715–1823) was an American explorer and an American Revolutionary War veteran. . Kilgore was the founder of Cross Plains, Tennessee, and the first European settler in Robertson County, Tennessee, arriving in the area in 1

  6. African Americans in the Revolutionary War - Wikipedia

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    In the Revolutionary War, slave owners often let the people they enslaved to enlist in the war with promises of freedom, but many were put back into slavery after the conclusion of the war. [12] In April 1775, at Lexington and Concord, Black men responded to the call and fought with Patriot forces.

  7. Women in the American Revolution - Wikipedia

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    Before the Revolution, Northern urban populations were overwhelmingly male; by 1806, women outnumbered men four to three in New York City. Increasing this disparity was the fact that the maritime industry was the largest employer of black males in the post-Revolutionary War period, taking many young black men away to sea for several years at a ...

  8. Fort Nashborough - Wikipedia

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    Fort Nashborough, also known as Fort Bluff, Bluff Station, French Lick Fort, Cumberland River Fort and other names, was the stockade established in early 1779 in the French Lick area of the Cumberland River valley, as a forerunner to the settlement that would become the city of Nashville, Tennessee.

  9. Betty Zane - Wikipedia

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    Elizabeth Zane McLaughlin Clark (July 19, 1765 – August 23, 1823) was a woman involved in the American Revolutionary War on the American frontier. She was the daughter of William Andrew Zane and Nancy Ann (née Nolan) Zane, and the sister of Ebenezer Zane, Silas Zane, Jonathan Zane, Isaac Zane and Andrew Zane.