Mary Lindley Murray, a fifty-year-old American housewife to a British loyalist, neither stepped onto a battlefield nor declared fidelity to the American cause, but, regardless, still chipped away at the British boulder in her own way. Mary, unlike other women of that time, didn’t carry a water pitcher or sew clothing for army members battling against hypothermia, but she successfully used immutable intelligent and female charm to win the American Revolution. General Israel Putnam and his American troops around Mary’s house faced imprisonment by British soldiers and General William Howe, so Mary Murray used her husband’s British loyalty and her known British appearance to delude Howe and his ten thousand troops into false pretenses. Mary’s innocent offer of refreshments and company let Putnam and his men escape the British troop’s incoming grasp. The intelligence and potential peril Mary Lindley Murray awarded the American cause on September 16, 1776, not only resulted with success but was imperative for…show more content… If General Howe would have caught onto Mary’s plan, Howe could’ve hurried his troops around and captured Putnam’s troops. If that would have happened, then the already small Continental Army (about 48,000 people) would’ve had a population of five thousand less, which would have been a little more than ten percent decrease within just a few hours. America won the American Revolution by literally blocking General Cornwallis in, and George Washington used those New York troops to build that barrier. If the New York troops were about percent less (if considering those same men were still in the army), than they would have been a skimpy barrier, if one at all, so Cornwallis could’ve escaped defeat that way. That didn’t happen because of Mary Murray’s plan to fool General Howe. The potential danger of her plan was great, but it eventually won the American
