Molly Pitcher at the Battle of Monmouth
by Dennis Malone Carter
Painting
The Battle of Monmouth took place on June 28th, 1778 in New Jersey. Mary Ludwig Hays McCauley, better known by her battlefield name, Molly Pitcher, tended to the soldiers by fetching pitchers of water from a nearby stream and once even filled in for her wounded husband by manning his cannon.
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