t and lacerated her jaw. Other soldiers moved her to the rear where she received first aid. The British captured the fort, but the wounded American soldiers were paroled. They were ferried across the river to Fort Lee. Margaret was then transported
             further in a jolting wagon all the way to Philadelphia. She never recovered fully from her wounds and was left without use of her left arm for the rest of her life.
             In 1779, the Continental Congress granted her pension ("half the pay and allowances of a soldiers in service") due to her distinguished bravery. She continued to be included on
             regimental muster lists until the end of the war in 1783. Margaret Cochran Corbin died near
             West Point, New York prior to her fiftieth birthday.
             In 1926, the Daughter of the American Revolution had her remains moved from an obscure grave and re-interred with other soldiers behind the Old Cadet Chapel at West Point
             where they also erected a monument to her
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