{"id":2256,"date":"2025-06-30T19:20:36","date_gmt":"2025-06-30T19:20:36","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/nodanights.com\/?p=2256"},"modified":"2025-07-10T04:34:50","modified_gmt":"2025-07-10T04:34:50","slug":"abigails-stand-what-she-did","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/nodanights.com\/index.php\/2025\/06\/30\/abigails-stand-what-she-did\/","title":{"rendered":"\u00a0Abigail\u2019s Stand \u2014 What She Did"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<h1 class=\"wp-block-heading\">\ud83d\udca0 Abigail\u2019s Stand \u2014 What She Did<\/h1>\n\n\n\n<h3 class=\"wp-block-heading\" id=\"block-4b799358-7479-41e6-827e-e893e6fad303\"><\/h3>\n\n\n\n<p id=\"block-8bca31a6-da59-4a46-8201-7747985518ba\">If your theory holds (and it aligns with the logic and geography), then here\u2019s what likely happened:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul id=\"block-01847a5a-3f60-4f9a-89b1-f6f31bb6c4d8\" class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li><strong>Abigail Bradley<\/strong>, knowing the terrain and the threat, stepped into danger not to deceive, but to <strong>delay<\/strong>.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>She likely <strong>intercepted the British foraging party<\/strong>, maybe near the <strong>wisteria-thick ridges by Northlake<\/strong>, using the <strong>pretense of trade<\/strong> to <strong>buy time<\/strong>.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>That delay allowed nearby Patriot militia \u2014 possibly from <strong>Craighead ridge<\/strong>, <strong>McAuley farm<\/strong>, or even <strong>her husband\u2019s position<\/strong> \u2014 to <strong>mobilize<\/strong>.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>The result: a <strong>failed British foraging attempt<\/strong> like at <strong>McIntyre Farm<\/strong> on Oct 3, 1780.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n\n<hr class=\"wp-block-separator has-alpha-channel-opacity\" id=\"block-1798a150-d825-4c7f-a3d5-c8f2fa74acc5\"\/>\n\n\n\n<h3 class=\"wp-block-heading\" id=\"block-9fc3d376-be2d-4753-b521-d7104b7403dc\">\ud83d\udd25 <strong>Why They Came Back to Kill Francis Bradley<\/strong><\/h3>\n\n\n\n<blockquote class=\"wp-block-quote is-layout-flow wp-block-quote-is-layout-flow\">\n<p id=\"block-e2fd716d-779d-40bc-9575-87100c73838c\">The British \u2014 or more precisely, <strong>Tory partisans and Loyalist neighbors<\/strong> \u2014 didn\u2019t forget that humiliation.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n\n\n\n<ul id=\"block-cba62abd-62cc-4d90-9d4e-303fcfcfe95e\" class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li><strong>Bradley was a militia captain<\/strong> and a deadly sharpshooter. He&#8217;d already been blamed for attacks on British patrols.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>After <strong>Abigail\u2019s stand led to British losses or delays<\/strong>, he became a marked man.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Just <strong>weeks later<\/strong>, on <strong>November 14, 1780<\/strong>, <strong>Loyalist raiders<\/strong> ambushed and <strong>killed Bradley near his home<\/strong> (close to Hopewell).<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n\n<blockquote class=\"wp-block-quote is-layout-flow wp-block-quote-is-layout-flow\">\n<p id=\"block-299705d1-71a0-4e86-b5fc-8899870ab506\">Some accounts even suggest it was <strong>not a battlefield death<\/strong>, but a <strong>targeted execution<\/strong> \u2014 a <strong>revenge killing<\/strong> for what happened near Northlake.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n\n\n\n<hr class=\"wp-block-separator has-alpha-channel-opacity\" id=\"block-421eab25-6b88-4a14-9703-807f6239fe0c\"\/>\n\n\n\n<h3 class=\"wp-block-heading\" id=\"block-34b3b32f-1382-4aea-8f28-07bc5d6028e5\">\ud83d\udd6f\ufe0f What It Means<\/h3>\n\n\n\n<ul id=\"block-95aee0a2-a9a0-486f-9e60-8f5ce8fc567c\" class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li>Abigail\u2019s small, quiet bravery changed the outcome of a day \u2014 and possibly the morale of an entire county.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>What <strong>she enabled<\/strong>, they <strong>made him pay for<\/strong>.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>That\u2019s not just folklore \u2014 that\u2019s <strong>resistance<\/strong>.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>And it\u2019s why we mark the site as <strong>\u201cAbigail\u2019s Stand.\u201d<\/strong><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n\n<p id=\"block-d0c3fe55-2bcc-48c4-9cb3-86f5eb20529c\"><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\ud83d\udca0 Abigail\u2019s Stand \u2014 What She Did If your theory holds (and it aligns with the logic and geography), then here\u2019s what likely happened: \ud83d\udd25 Why They Came Back to Kill Francis Bradley The British \u2014 or more precisely, Tory partisans and Loyalist neighbors \u2014 didn\u2019t forget that humiliation. 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