What did Molly Pitcher do that is so famous?

Answer 1

Pitcher, Molly
1744—1832, American Revolutionary heroine whose real name was Mary Ludwig Hays or Heis, b. near Trenton, N.J. As the wife of John Hays or Heis, she carried water for her husband and other soldiers in the battle of Monmouth (1778) and earned her nickname. The legend that she manned her husband's gun is apocryphal and possibly rose from confusion with Margaret Corbin. After her husband's death, she married George McCauley, and in 1822 she was pensioned by Pennsylvania.

Answer 2

Common Story: During the Revolutionary War she took supplies like food in water to the soldiers in the field. When her husband was shot, she took over his artillery and held against the British. Actual Story: Molly Pitcher wasn't really one particular person, more a created character composed of several similar true stories. The most famous "Molly Pitcher" was Margaret Corbin. Notice Molly is a nickname for Margaret and Pitcher was due to the fact that she was carrying water to American soldiers.

Answer 3

Molly Pitcher was a common nickname for camp followers--but don't misunderstand the term "camp follower," either. It's come to refer to prostitutes, but many of the camp followers in the Revolutionary War were wives, daughters, and sweethearts who chose to take their chances traveling with the men in their lives rather than stay home and run such risks as being burned out of their homes.

These women performed such services as laundering and nursing as well as carrying water to the men in battle. They (and the children who often accompanied them) were not paid, and were given only half the food (or a quarter, in the case of children) allowance as the men in the field. In winter encampments, many of these unfortunates died--it's likely that twice as many women and children died at Valley Forge than men, and nearly everyone knows of the mortality rate of the soldiers there.

The woman we think of a Molly Pitcher was a composite, then--at the Battle of Monmouth, which was fought on a summer day of record high temperatures, the wife of of a gunner took his place at the cannon when he collapsed from the heat. She remained there until the end of the battle.

Mary Hays was one of these women, and Margaret Corbin was another--and Corbin was actually injured and did indeed receive a pension some time after the war.

Answer 4

She carried water and assisted her husband, during the Revolutionary war.

She is considered the first relief Pitcher for the Yankees!

Sometimes I crack myself up.

Answer 5

During the American Revolution, she brought water in her pitcher to the patriots. She also loaded her musket and fought alongside them againts the British.

Answer 6

http://sill-www.army.mil/pao/pamolly.htm