"Initially, yes." Okay, Leah could do this. The American Revolution was her jam. "Of course, once the revolution really got going, the war moved south from New England to Virginia and New York. Philadelphia was captured by the British-- um, that's the people we were rebelling against-- at one point and the government had to flee for the hills. But my interest is more in the function of women during the war. Abigail Adams, Deborah Sampson, Mercy Otis Warren and the like. They had much more influence than the standard scholars would have you believe."