Revolutionary War hero Casimir Pulaski might have been a woman or intersex.
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While the Pulaski skeleton showed tell-tale signs of extensive horseback riding and a battle wound on the right hand that the general is known to have suffered, the facial structure and jaw angle were decidedly female, said Estabrook. That changed after a team of scientists that included Estabrook were able to confirm that the bones were a match to DNA taken from Pulaski’s great niece.“Probably he was not completely aware,” Estabrook said. “What we do know about Pulaski is that there were enough androgens happening in the body so that he had facial hair and male pattern baldness. Obviously there was some genital development because we have his baptismal records and he was baptized as a son.
Born in 1745, Pulaski was a member of the Polish nobility and a skilled cavalry officer who fought against the Russians when they tried to take over Poland. Pulaski fled to Paris when it was discovered that he had been part of a conspiracy to assassinate a puppet king imposed on Poland by Moscow. A grateful Washington made Pulaski a brigadier general and the Pole set about turning the Continental Army’s cavalry into a well-trained fighting force — despite the fact that Pulaski barely spoke any English.
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