Template:Did you know nominations/Mrs David Wright's Guard


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The result was: promoted by Cwmhiraeth (talk) 06:19, 13 May 2018 (UTC)

Mrs David Wright's Guard

 * ... that Mrs David Wright's Guard was formed by female patriots in the American Revolutionary War to guard a crossing of the Nashua River? "In April 1775 Prudence Cummings Wright ... recruited a group of thirty to forty local women to guard a bridge over the Nashua River"
 * ALT1:... that after Prudence Wright overhead her brothers talking to a loyalist courier in 1775 she raised an all-female militia to capture him? "she overheard her two brothers talking with their friend Leonard Whiting.  She suspected all three of being Tories ... Mrs David Wright captured Leonard Whiting"
 * Reviewed: To follow

Created by Dumelow (talk). Self-nominated at 19:21, 29 April 2018 (UTC).




 * Hi violet/riga, thanks for your review. I have now carried out a QPQ at Template:Did you know nominations/Bertil Almgren (2/4) and tried to clarify the husbands name in the article - Dumelow (talk) 10:12, 10 May 2018 (UTC)
 * Symbol confirmed.svg Thanks that's great. GTG. violet/riga [talk] 07:13, 11 May 2018 (UTC)