from infamous mercenary ravagers." General Nathanael Greene depicted yet a third stereotype of women as helpless innocents when he requested his brother's assistance with "Katy," Greene's headstrong young wife, during Greene's absence. After Trenton, Washington admonished his troops to show "humanity and tenderness to women and children." Such behavior toward war's victims would "distinguish brave Americans. Paul's cathedral, neatly captures one stereotype of women's association with war. first led him into practices which ended in an untimely and ignominious Death." Washington's rebuke of the ladies who plied their trade in New York City's red light district, mischievously named "the holy ground" for its proximity to St. In General Orders, 28 June 1776, General George Washington lamented "the unhappy Fate of Thomas Hickey, executed this day for Mutiny, Sedition, and Treachery." It was "lewd Women," Washington claimed, "who. Revolutionary Mothers: Women in the Struggle for America's Independence.
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