Deborah Sampson

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Deborah Sampson Gannett, also known as Deborah Samson or Deborah Sampson, (December 17, 1760 – April 29, 1827) was a Massachusetts woman who disguised herself as a man in order to serve in the Continental Army during the American Revolutionary War.

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Image: Engraving by George Graham. From a drawing by William Beastall, which was based on a painting by Joseph Stone., Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons.