I have not failed. I've just found 10,000 ways that won't work.
â Deborah Sampson's famous quote about preserverence.
Courage is not the absence of fear, but rather the judgment that something else is more important than fear.
â Deborah Sampson.
Happy for America, happy for Europe, perhaps for the world when, on the delivery of Cornwallis's sword to the illustrious, the immortal Washington, or rather by his order, to the brave Lincoln, the sun of Liberty and Independence burst through a sable cloud, and his benign influence was, almost instantaneously, felt in our remotest corners!
â Deborah Sampson.
Deborah Sampson (December 17th, 1760 - April 29th, 1827) was a Massachusetts woman in the Revolutionary era, who had disguised as a man to enter it, only with the alias "Robert Shurtliff". Making her known as the first female professional soldier before she was revealed to be a woman in disguise.
She served 17 months in the army and was wounded in 1782, and was honorably discharged a year later at West Point, New York, in 1783.
Her heroic acts include leading a raid on a Tory home (that resulted in the capture of 15 men), and while she was in the siege of Yorktown; she dug trenches and helped storm a British redoubt (all while she endured canon fire).
Personality[]
She was known as "fearless, restless and multi-talented" in her desires to fight in the Revolutionary War, and it doesn't help that she is known as a hard worker who who exercised her mentality and physical strength, which got her doing a lot of manual labor and became just as strong as the men were.
Despite never going to school in her life, she is also quite intelligent and wily in her own right. She was one of the most notable examples of "women disguising themselves as men" for 17 months without being detected until 1783 (despite this, the physician kept her secret and cared for her).