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may 10, 1782 - Sampson Enters the Continental Army As Robert Shurtleff

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Sampson wore a man's clothes and pretended to be a man named Robert Shurtleff in order to enlist in the Continental Army and fight in the Revolutionary War. She joined the Light Infantry Company of the 4th Massachusetts Regiment under Captain George Webb

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may 10, 1782
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~ 244 years ago