America’s Female Sniper

Jemima Warner accompanied her husband, James, on Benedict Arnold’s 1775 expedition through the Maine wilderness toward Quebec. When the starving and exhausted James could go no farther, she left him bread and water, took his rifle, and continued alone; she later carried an American surrender demand into Quebec. Warner was killed by British grapeshot during the siege on Dec. 11, 1775, and is described as one of the first documented American women killed in action.

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