Laura Secord

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Laura Secord
Laura Secord (née Ingersoll) (September 131775 –  October 171868) was a Canadian heroine of the War of 1812. She is known as Canada's Paul Revere.Laura Ingersoll was born in Great Barrington, Massachusetts in 1775. Suffering the aftermath of the American Revolution, her father, Thomas Ingersoll, moved the family to the Canadas in 1795, and in 1797 she married the Loyalist James Secord, son of an officer of Butler's Rangers (the Ingersolls themselves were not Loyalists). James and Laura resided in Queenston in Upper Canada (present-day Ontario), while her family went on to settle present day Ingersoll, Ontario. On October 131812, James Secord was injured at the Battle of Queenston Heights, part of the emerging War of 1812.
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