Episode 16: Deborah Sampson

In this episode of Half-Arsed History, find out about Deborah Sampson, a woman who disguised herself as a man so she could fight in the American Revolution.

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Image: Mann, Horace. The Female Review: Life of Deborah Sampson, the Female Soldier in the War of Revolution. Dedham, MA: Nathaniel and Benjamin Heaton, 1797. Via Massachusetts Historical Society.

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