Woman in the Revolution

Sibyl Ludington takes the malisha to her father.Sibyl also tricks british so her father didn’t get hurt.Deborah samson was an indentured servant for 7 years.Finally turned into a young woman and got her freedom.Since a woman can’t fight in a war she disguised herself as a man.Designs a man suit and walked 40 miles to sign-up.She changes her name to Robert Shurtliff.She uses the name from her brother who died long before.The army believed that she was a boy because of her muscles she got from working on the farm.She gets assigned to west point to join captain webb’s company of the fourth massachusetts .She gets shot and is taken to a hospital.

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