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During the Revolutionary War on June 28, 1778, a blistering hot day at the Battle of Monmouth, a woman with her husband, John Casper Hays, who served in the Pennsylvania Regiment, carried water to thirsty American soldiers, who shouted “MOLLY, Molly Pitcher” when they needed water. Through heavy bombardment she carried water to the parched soldiers during the artillery duel. When her husband was wounded, she immediately helped load and fire the cannon, continuing the barrage against the British. Legend holds that General George Washington commended her after the battle and commissioned her a sergeant on the battlefield, a claim said to be supported by her army pension and her burial in her home town with full military honors in 1832.
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