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Who was the first Purple Heart recipient?

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George Washington awarded the first Purple Hearts, then known as Badges of Military Merit on May 3, 1783 to Sergeant Elijah Churchill of the Fourth Troop of the Second Continental Dragoons, Connecticut.

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