Great Deceptions in Military History

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Helen Keller lost her sight and hearing at 19 months of age, but despite these handicaps, learned to read and write, eventually graduating from Harvard and authoring fourteen books.

The Sons of Liberty was an organization of notable founding fathers including Samuel Adams, John Hancock and Paul Revere, that provoked civil disobedience against British rule.

Mozart was a musical prodigy from childhood, composing his first opera at the age of eleven. He would go on to compose some of the most influential pieces of music in history, despite dealing with physical and mental illness.

Bonnie and Clyde became superstar outlaws due to their youthful good looks and lengthy track record of murder, armed robbery and outright contempt for the law.

Samuel Adams was a student of philosophy, failed businessman, activist writer and founding father of the US as a vocal proponent of the Revolutionary War, signer of the Declaration of Independence, and contributor to the Articles of Confederation.

French territory in early 19th Century America was ideal for US expansion when the Louisiana Purchase was negotiated for $15 million or $0.03 per acre as Napoleon forced France into financial distress during the Napoleonic Wars.

Sacagawea was born into the Shoshone tribe before being kidnapped and sold into a non-consensual marriage with a fur-trapper who brought her and their 55-day-old son on the Lewis and Clark Expedition.