Talk:Molly Pitcher

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[edit] "Pitcher" part missing in this legend

Someone with an actual source will need to verify and (then) add this one but...

There seems to be something missing: the 'pitcher' from which she got her name! I've heard this story only once before and in the version I was read, before her husband fell and she took his place at the guns, she ferried water to the artillerymen (including her husband) from a nearby creek in a pitcher (hence the nomme de guerre). It wasn't until after her husband fell leaving his gun one man short in a crew that she took up the guns. But that water running, true or not, is a key bit; its where the legend gets her name!

[edit] DI&CM section

What is "DI&CM" I might be clueless, but even if it does stand for something, it's not something obvious and therefore is probably an inappropriate section title.Lapunkd 17:34, 8 October 2007 (UTC)

It was vandalism. DES 12:43, 11 October 2007 (UTC)

[edit] brave

I completly agree with the first person! Molly Pitcher helped the soldjers by bringing water to them,and only picked up the gun when her husband fell wounded.I think that the audiance should be told of her nursing and bringing water! —Preceding unsigned comment added by 170.211.95.130 (talk) 16:27, 6 March 2008 (UTC)