Nancy Hart Impact

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Nancy Hart Orange county, North Carolina was where Nancy Hart was born. She was born in 1735 and died in 1830. One of her impacts on the Revolutionary war was that she had killed 6 tories. Another impact was that she help Whigs escape. The last but not least impact was that she was a spy for the Patriots (National). Nancy Hart was a patriot. She supported Whigs, or the people who were trying to get away from the British rule. If *Whigs needed help she would let them cross through her property or would hide them in her home (Most patriots did this). * Whigs are people who would try to escape from British rule, or a patriot.* After the Whig crossed her property *Tories usually came looking for the whig. *A Tory is a Loyalist, or a person who is loyal to Britain*. She would point them in a different direction than which the …show more content…

When she would go to spy on the british she would dress up like an old blind man and walk into british camps. When she would go into the camps she would try to gather as much information as she could. To bring back the information she had received she had to to cross the Savannah river. She would tie logs together to make a raft to cross the river. After she gathered the information she would share what she got with the rest of the Georgia Patriots. The Georgia Patriots used the information to have themselves ready incase the british was planning something against the patriots. Nancy Hart was considered a confederate spy by the Patriots. That is another way Nancy Hart impacted the Revolutionary War (Nancy 3). As you can see, Nancy Hart had some impacts on the American Revolutionary War. For example, when Nancy would spy on the British to get information for the Patriots. Also when she would help Whigs escape from the British. Especially when Nancy killed 6 tories and hung them in a tree. Since Nancy Hart did all of this you can see that she had an impact on the American Revolutionary