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And a Woman Mans a Cannon
Panel 12, 1955
Margaret Corbin accompanied her cannoneer husband into the Battle of Fort Washington in New York on November 16, 1776. When the British killed him in action, she filled his post by loading and firing the cannon with great accuracy before drawing enemy fire. No taller than the belly of her commander's horse, Corbin struggled against larger forces in battle and for the rest of her life as a woman veteran. In Lawrence's eyes, she is reinvigorated as a commanding figure, standing with her gun upright and in relief at the left margin of the assembled soldiers. |