Deals with the enlistment of Deborah Samson into the Continental Army as Private Robert Shurtliff during the Revolutionary War in the United States. Other women who posed as male soldiers; Books about Samson; Issues surrounding Samson's enlistment.

he Revolution was not a one-gender war, however. Many women contributed to the effort, and it is time their stories are told.

Much has been written on the fathers of the Revolution, but what about its all-important mothers?

List of notable women of the American Revolution. Adapted from an 1848 book by Elizabeth F. Ellet.