“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!”
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Deborah Sampson
Military woman during the American Revolutionary War, known for fighting as a man and being recognized as the first female soldier in American history. more