Deborah Sampson Gannett (December 17, 1760 - April 29, 1827), better known as Deborah Sampson, was an American woman who impersonated 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 Shurtliff", of Uxbridge, Massachusetts, was wounded in 1782 and honorably discharged at West Point in 1783.
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A: Being born a man.”
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