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In 1810 the U.S. Congress voted $4000 to build a lighthouse at Scituate harbor. During the War of 1812, Abigail and Rebecca Bates, the young daughters of the lighthouse keeper, prevented a British naval force from sacking the town by playing a fife and beating a drum. They became known in history as "the army of two," and their courageous act was recorded in many textbooks and story books.
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Scituate, Massachusetts · United States
