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Margaret Cochran's Contribution To The Revolutionary War
Margaret Corbin

Abby Donnay
Revolutionary Way Biography
5th Grade Literacy
May 11, 2017 Getting horribly wounded in the jaw and chest and getting disabled in the left arm sounds terrible doesn’t it? Well guess who survived that- Margaret Cochran Corbin. This essay will tell all about Margaret’s early life, adult life and contribution to the Revolutionary War! Margaret’s early life was pretty harsh, this paragraph will tell the story of her early life. Margaret Cochran is her maiden name. Margaret Cochran was born on November 12, 1751 in Franklin, Pennsylvania. Her father's name is Robert Cochran, her mother's name is Sarah Cochran, her brothers name is John Cochran. When Margaret was five she was visiting her uncle with her brother when their farm was taken over by a Native American raid. Her father was killed and her mother was taken captive. Margaret did not go to school or have any personal training. After her parents died she was orphaned
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Margaret was a Patriot. She made food and nursed the wounded soldiers. One day she dressed as a man to stay with her husband at war! She was helping load the cannon when all of the sudden, the gunner was shot. So Margaret and her husband decided to take over the cannon. Then all of a sudden John was shot too. Margaret just then started to man the cannon herself, she was eventually shot too. Her left arm was nearly torn off. When the nurse came he walked right past her, until she moved her arm. Then the nurse noticed she is a girl. He got her on a wagon and her was off to Fort Washington! Her wounds were so bad she was sent to Philadelphia. There they found out that her had disabled her left arm for ever she was also badly wounded in the jaw and left part of her chest, but she eventually healed up. She never married anyone else after John died. That is when she became Margaret Cochran once

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