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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