Museum to honor Revolutionary War heroine Deborah Sampson

... a man and enlisted in the Fourth Regiment of the Continental Army as Robert Shurtleff. She served until wounded at Tarrytown, N.Y. in 1782 and was later discovered to be a woman. She was honorably discharged at West Point, N.Y. in 1783. Deborah ...

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