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WASHINGTON, Dec. 17, 2011 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ -- Following is a daily "Profile America" underline from a U.S. Census Bureau:
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SATURDAY, DECEMBER 17: DEBORAH SAMPSON
Profile America -- Saturday, Dec 17th. Today outlines a birthday in 1760 of a conspicuous woman, Deborah Sampson, innate in Plympton, Massachusetts as an indentured servant. Wishing to take partial in a Revolutionary War, she sheltered herself as a male and enlisted in a Continental Army's 4th Massachusetts Regiment underneath a name Robert Shurtleff. Her temperament was detected and she was discharged from a army in 1783. She became one of a initial women in a U.S. to harangue professionally, revelation audiences of her practice as a usually lady in a army. After her death, her heirs were given a full troops grant by an Act of Congress. Today, in an army of good over a half million, there are 15,000 womanlike officers and over 60,000 womanlike enlisted members. Profile America is in a 15th year as a open use of a U.S. Census Bureau.
Sources: Chase's Calendar of Events 2011, p. 603
National Women's History Museum Statistical Abstract of a United States 2012, t. 510Profile America is constructed by a Public Information Office of a U.S. Census Bureau. These daily facilities are accessible as constructed segments, prepared to air, on a monthly CD or on a Internet during (look for "Multimedia Gallery" by a "Newsroom" button).
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