I feel about Yankees the way Nancy Hart felt about Tories.
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Georgia's most acclaimed female participant during
According to Revolutionary lore, Nancy Hart famously outwitted a group of Tories who had invaded her home. She served them wine and, once they were drunk, filched their weapons, which she used to shoot two of the men and hold the rest captive until help arrived. Painting by Louis S. Glanzman.
Nancy Hart
the Revolutionary War (1775-83) was Nancy Hart. A devout patriot, Hart gained notoriety during the revolution for her determined efforts to rid the area of Tories, English soldiers, and British sympathizers. Her single-handed efforts against Tories and Indians in the Broad River frontier, as well as her covert activities as a patriot spy, have become the stuff of myth, legend, and local folklore.
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Although explicit details concerning most of her life are unknown, it is widely assumed that Nancy Ann Morgan Hart was born in North Carolina, somewhere in the Yadkin River valley (although some believe that she was born in Pennsylvania), around 1735 (some say 1747). During the early 1770s, Hart and her family left North Carolina and made their way into Georgia, eventually settling in the fertile Broad River valley.
So, she might have been from Pennsylvania???
It's unclear, but she might have been a Yankee!
And I always teach that it was shine she fed them, not wine.
WarWoman Road in Rabun County was named after her. :) She's a legend in these parts. Supposedly she was six feet tall, cross-eyed, with wild red hair. That's why the Tories couldn't escape her and her musket! They couldn't tell which one she was looking at!!!!
OMG. I'm in my classroom, laughing out loud. Perfect.
I was thinking just the other day that everything I needed to know to make it through life, I learned from Scarlett.
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