On this day 250 years ago at a gun battery in the American lines besieging Quebec, Jemima Warner was killed and a man was wounded by British artillery fire. Warner had marched with her husband in Colonel Benedict Arnold’s troops through the wilderness of Maine, carrying her husband’s musket after he died of illness on the march. Then at Quebec she had trudged through snow to the City gates to deliver General Richard Montgomery’s surrender demand only to be imprisoned by Governor Carleton for five days before she was released back to the American lines. She was reportedly carrying a bucket of warner to cool the American cannon when she was struck by a British cannonball. Jemima Warner was the first woman to die in combat in the service of the American Army.

https://unlearnedhistory.blogspot.com/2015/06/remembering-jemima-warner.html; https://www.7vr.org/single-post/2018/09/12/women-who-marched-to-quebec-with-the-continental-army-1775-those-indelible-camp-followe; https://gardnerlibrary.org/sites/default/files/vol24n1.pdf#page=5