The Women of Bryan's Station | Kentucky Life | KET

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In the waning days of the Revolutionary War, a siege at Bryan's Station in what is now Lexington, Ky., gave rise to a little-known tale of female heroism.

On the morning of Aug. 16, 1782, while the British Canadians and the Shawnee lay in wait in the forest, a group of frontier women led by Polly Hawkins Craig bravely left the fort to gather water from a spring.

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