Deborah Sampson
Deborah Sampson
Deborah Sampson Gannett, better known as Deborah Sampson or Deborah Samson, was a woman who disguised herself as a man in order to serve in the Continental Army during the American Revolutionary War. She is one of a small number of women with a documented record of military combat experience in that war. She served 17 months in the army, as "Robert Shurtleff" of Uxbridge, Massachusetts, was wounded in 1782, and was honorably discharged at West Point, New York, in...
NationalityAmerican
ProfessionWar Hero
Date of Birth17 December 1760
CityPlympton, MA
CountryUnited States of America
I am indeed willing to acknowledge what I have done, an error and presumption. I will call it an error and presumption because I swerved from the accustomed flowery path of female delicacy, to walk upon the heroic precipice of feminine perdition!
Why can I not fight for my country too?
I burst the tyrant bands, which held my sex in awe.