Margaret Corbin was no stranger to the horrors of war. Born in western Pennsylvania in 1751, she was only four years old when the French and Indian War broke out. By Chris Stevens Updated Jul 15 ...

Her name was Margaret Corbin. At 24 years old, "Captain Molly” became one of the first women to fight in the American Revolution — and later the first woman to receive a life-long pension from ...

A TABLET to the memory of Margaret Corbin, a heroine of the battle of Fort Washington on Nov. 16, 1776, is to be unveiled at Holyrood Church, One Hundred and Eighty-first Street and Broadway ...

Her name was Margaret Corbin — and now there's a bill in Congress to name the Manhattan VA for her. It's part of another movement, to change the motto of the Department of Veterans Affairs so ...

West Point honored Revolutionary War heroine, Margaret Cochran Corbin, also referred to as "Captain Molly," for her actions during the Revolutionary War, May 1 at the Old Cadet Chapel at the West ...

A bronze bas-relief attached to a granite tombstone depicts Margaret Corbin towering over the battlefield, encumbered by the tools of the 18th-century artillery gunner: powder horn slung over her ...