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Deborah Sampson was a woman who wanted to fight in the Revolutionary War, but they wouldn't let her because she was a woman. She disguised herself as a man named Robert Shurtliff and fought better than some of the men! She later got wounded but removed the bullet all by herself so no one would find out that she was a woman. She also got a fever later, and the doctor eventually found out she was a woman. She was honorably discharged from the army and was given a pension of $4 a month after Paul Revere wrote to Congress on her behalf.

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