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Margaret Corbin
Margaret Corbin was wounded on November 16, 1776, when she took over her husband's artillery post during the British-Hessian attack on Fort Washington, near today's Fort Tryon Park.
Margaret Corbin Circle, W 190th St & Fort Washington Ave
A bronze plaque at Margaret Corbin Circle, at W 190th St and Fort Washington Ave, dedicated June 13, 1982 by the Chamber of Commerce of Washington Heights and Inwood, says Margaret Cochran Corbin (1751-1800) was wounded during the British-Hessian attack on Fort Washington on November 16, 1776, when she filled the post of her husband John, and calls her the first woman to fight as a soldier in the Revolutionary War. The plaque says she is buried at West Point.
Wikipedia’s Washington Heights article adds that Fort Washington was a group of fortifications on the high points of Washington Heights, with its central site at present-day Bennett Park, and that the Continental Army lost the battle, one of its worst defeats of the war. A 1909 plaque to Corbin sits in Fort Tryon Park, and Margaret Corbin Drive was named for her in 1977.
Today Margaret Corbin Circle is the main entrance to Fort Tryon Park, near where Cabrini Blvd meets Fort Washington Ave.