FEMALE WARRIORS.
MEMORIALS OF
_FEMALE VALOUR AND HEROISM, FROM THE MYTHOLOGICAL AGES TO
THE PRESENT ERA_.
BY ELLEN C. CLAYTON (_MRS. NEEDHAM_),
AUTHOR OF "QUEENS OF SONG," "ENGLISH FEMALE ARTISTS," ETC.
IN TWO VOLUMES.
VOL. II.
LONDON:
TINSLEY BROTHERS, 8, CATHERINE STREET, STRAND.
1879.
[_All Rights Reserved._]
PRINTED BY TAYLOR AND CO.,
10, LITTLE QUEEN STREET, LINCOLN'S INN FIELDS.
CONTENTS.
CHAPTER I.
Page
Captain Bodeaux, Female Officer in the French Army--Christian
Davies, _alias_ Mother Ross--Female Soldier in the 20th
Foot--Women of Barcelona--Hannah Snell, Private in the Line
and Marines--Phœbe Hessel, Private in the 5th Regiment--"Paul"
Daniel, a Female Recruit--Hannah Whitney, and Anne Chamberlayne,
Female Sailors--Mary Ralphson--Miss Jenny Cameron--"Pretty Polly
Oliver"--Anne Sophia Detzliffin, Prussian Female Soldier--Madame
de Drucourt (Siege of Louisbourg)--Madame Ducharmy (Capture of
Guadeloupe)--Chevalier d'Eon--Deborah Samson, Private, and Molly
Macaulay, Sergeant in the American Revolutionary Army--Elizabeth
Canning--Catherine the Second of Russia and the Princess
Daschkova--Doña Rafaela Mora, Female Captain in the Spanish
American Service (How Nelson Lost an Eye)--Female Sailor on Board
Admiral Rodney's Ship 1