Talk:Nancy Hart

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What the...?[edit]

Has anyone noticed that this article is about someone supposedly involved with the American revolution, but the date of birth is 1842, decades after the revolution. In addition, the picture doesn't seem to match the picture of the person in the external link. Nobunaga24 07:12, 30 March 2006 (UTC)[reply]

  • Disregard the above. User Savhistory came along and did an outstanding job cleaning up this article. Nobunaga24 23:49, 30 March 2006 (UTC)[reply]

Changes the flow of the article and added numerous citations becaues of varying accounts around many facts of Nancy Hart's life. I also removed the specific reference to Raleigh as her birthplace as this seems to be the actual birthplace of the other Nancy Hart Douglas instead. Also removed the external link to Nancy Hart Douglas. Added section outlining the various places/groups named after Nancy Hart.Roswell native 17:49, 31 March 2006 (UTC)[reply]

I'm curious, how did she kill two men with a single shot muzzle loading musket?--Jackyd101 22:31, 4 October 2006 (UTC)[reply]

Details, please![edit]

I'm dying to know why this woman became a legend in American history! I know there are links, but the meat of the story oughta be here! I'm a geek for local history and a transplant to NE Georgia. PurpleChez 16:39, 2 November 2007 (UTC)[reply]

Looks like the details were temporarily deleted by a vandal. Per Wikipedia policy, anonymous vandals can delete almost anything they want. Fixed for now. —Kevin Myers 10:33, 10 December 2007 (UTC)[reply]


The info on the "Nancy Hart" page is completely different than the info in my "History Stories for Children" book. According to my book... 

  "Nancy Hart lived in Georgia, long ago. Her house was a little cabin, way out in the woods...

"... Nancy was tall and strong. She was over six feet tall, and she was stronger than some men. She was also very brave, and she could ride a horse and shoot a gun. She would shoot deer, catch fish, and trap rabbits and other animals.

"One day FIVE soldiers came to her cabin. It was war time, and SOLDIERS WERE ALL OVER THE COUNTRY.

"Those FIVE soldiers were British soldiers, and Nancy didn't like British soldiers, but she didn't tell them so.

"She smiled, and sail, "Come in."

"She had a sweet voice, and the soldiers came in. "We want dinner," they said. "All right," replied Nancy, "sit down and rest. I'll get dinner for you in a jiffy."

"She flew around and soon had dinner on the table. The redcoats were much pleased. They thought, "She's our friend!" They stood their guns up against the wall and sat down at the table.

"Nancy waited on them in fine style. She was here, there, and everywhere, just as polite as she could be. The soldiers thought: "What a good dinner! What a nice time we are having!"

"But the next thing they knew, Nancy had hidden their guns! Then she stood in the door and said, "Finish your dinner, gentlemen, you are my prisoners."

"When TWO of them tried to get away, she SHOT them. Then the OTHER THREE sat still. *(It says nothing about the soldiers being killed.)

"One thing that helped Nancy was the fact that she was cross-eyed. This is what people say; and so they say that the British soldiers couldn't tell which way she was looking; they couldn't tell which way she might shoot next time.

"Nancy sent word to her NEIGHBORS, and they came to help her. Not a one of the FIVE soldiers got away.

"The people of Georgia loved Nancy Hart because she was BRAVE, and because she DID WHAT SHE COULD TO HELP HER COUNTRY." —Preceding unsigned comment added by 70.143.48.145 (talk) 19:52, 28 March 2009 (UTC)[reply]

Yeah, sure ... shot TWO Brits with a single shot muzzle loader. LOL! --108.175.2.193 (talk) 13:30, 28 December 2016 (UTC)[reply]
Accounts of the incident (and clarification that several muskets were used) may be found in numerous historical texts. For example, one of the earliest known accounts appeared in Elizabeth F. Ellet's book, The Women of the American Revolution (1848–50) (3 volumes). For a more in-depth analysis, see: John Thomas Scott, "Nancy Hart: Too good not to tell again," in Anne Short Chirhart and Betty Wood, eds., Georgia Women: Their Lives and Times, Volume 1 (Athens, GA: University of Georgia Press, 2009), 37-38. ChessieClio (talk) 16:18, 28 December 2016 (UTC)[reply]

New Georgia Encyclopedia project is underway[edit]

The New Georgia Encyclopedia ("NGE") has authorized Wikipedia to import and/or merge ten articles, which I have copied to project space; one of these is Wikipedia:WikiProject Georgia (U.S. state)/New Georgia Encyclopedia/Nancy Hart.

Our goal is to get the stupid articles in top shape and merge or move them into mainspace as quickly as possible. If this turns out well (as I am confident it will), the NGE will permit us to import their remaining body of over 2,000 well-researched and well-written articles, which could pioneer a trend for other private owners of encyclopedic content to release their materials into our corpus. I would deeply appreciate any help that we can muster in accomplishing this. Please note that the original NGE article (linked in the required attribution section of the above article in project space) has images, but NGE is unable to convey those to us at this time, as they are individually licensed by NGE. Also, please note that the NGE would like for us to parallel, to the extent possible, their selection of internal links (where they link to an internal NGE article, they would like for us to also link to our equivalent Wikipedia article). Cheers! bd2412 T 19:25, 5 February 2010 (UTC)[reply]

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