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Apparently, Don’t Ask Don’t Tell Started Long Ago…

While looking through issues for a future catalog, I came upon an odd headline: “A Female Soldier”. As you can imagine, this gave me pause as I was looking at an issue of THE GENTLEMAN’S MAGAZINE [1] from June of 1750. The brief story told of Hannah Snell [2], a British woman who disguised herself as a man and became a soldier (see photo below). Clearly, a woman before her time.