Women in 18th-century warfare

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Women have contributed to military activities including as combatants. The following list describes women known to have participated in military actions in the 18th century. For women in warfare in the United States at this time, please see

Timeline of women in war in the United States, Pre-1945
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Timeline of women in warfare from 18th century warfare worldwide (except the present US)

Maratha Queen Tarabai
Tarabai
Mai Bhago
Julianna Géczy
Margareta von Ascheberg
Anna Colbjørnsdatter
Dahomey Amazons
Phoebe Hessel
Hannah Snell
Mah Laqa Bai
Begum Samru
Manuela Beltrán
Micaela Bastidas Puyucahua
Statue of Bartolina Sisa alongside Túpac Katari
Thao Thep Kasattri and Thao Sri Sunthon
Dorothea Maria Lösch
Renée Bordereau
Céleste Bulkeley
Marie-Thérèse Figueur
Franziska Scanagatta

18th century

1710s

1720s

1730s

1740s

  • 1740: Ann Mills fights on the frigate Maidenstone as a dragoon.[41]
  • 1741–1743: Maria van de Gijessen served in the Dutch navy under then name Claes van de Gijessen.[42]
  • 1743: Johanna Sophia Kettner disguises herself as a man and enlists in the Austrian army.[43]
  • 1744: An unnamed female serve in the Dutch navy dressed as a male.[20]
  • 1745: Jacobina (last name unknown) served in the Dutch navy dressed as a male.[20]
  • 1745: An unnamed female served in the Dutch navy dressed as a male.[20]
  • 1745: Phoebe Hessel fights in the Battle of Fontenoy. She had disguised herself as a man to do so.[44]
  • 1745: Scottish Mary Ralphson fights in the British army in Battle of Fontenoy dressed as a man[45]
  • 1746: Johanna Bennius serve in the Dutch navy dressed as a male under the name Jan Drop.[20]
  • 1746: Elisabeth Huyser serve in the Dutch army dressed as a male.[20]
  • 1746–1769: Maria van Antwerpen serves as a soldier in the Netherlands under the name Jan van Art.[46]
  • 1748: Gertruid van Duiren enlists and briefly serve in the Dutch army before being discovered[47]
  • 1747–1750:
    Royal Marine: her military service is officially recognized in 1750, and she is granted a pension.[48]

1750s

  • 1750: Maria Sophia Stording serve in the Dutch navy dressed as a man.[20]
  • 1751: Two unnamed soldiers of the Dutch navy are discovered to be females dressed as males.[20]
  • 1754: An unnamed female serve in the Dutch army dressed as a man.[20]
  • 1755: An unnamed female serve in the Dutch navy dressed as a man.[20]
  • 1756: Soldier Jochem Wiesse of the Dutch army are discovered to be a female dressed as a male.[20]
  • 1757: Sailor "Arthur Douglas" is revealed to be a woman. Her birth-name is unknown.[49]
  • 1757: An unnamed female serve in the Dutch army dressed as a man.[20]
  • 1757–58: Two unnamed females serve in the Dutch navy dressed as a males.[20]
  • 1759–1771: Mary Lacy serves as a Marine carpenter under the name of "William Chandler".[50]

1760s

1770s

  • 1770–1771: Margareta Reymers serve in the Dutch navy dressed as a man: she is discovered by her pregnancy.[55]
  • 1772: Mademoiselle de Guignes and Mademoiselle d'Aguillon fight a duel in Paris.[56]
  • 1775: On Dec. 11, Jemima Warner was killed by an enemy bullet during the siege of Quebec. Mrs. Warner had originally accompanied her husband, PVT James Warner of Thompson's Pennsylvania Rifle Battalion, to Canada because she feared that he would become sick on the campaign trail and she wanted to nurse him. When PVT Warner eventually died in the wilderness en route to Quebec, Mrs. Warner buried him and stayed with the battalion as a cook.[57]
  • 1778: Baltazara Chuiza leads a rebellion against the Spanish in Ecuador.[58]
  • 1778: Sikh princess Bibi Rajindar Kaur leads 3,000 soldiers to rescue her cousin who was defeated by Hari Singh.[59]
  • 1778–1803: The ruling Princess of Sardhana, Begum Samru (Johanna Noblis), leads her armies in war.[60]

1780s

1790s

See also

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Further reading

  • Cook, Bernard, ed. Women and War: Historical Encyclopedia from Antiquity to the Present (2006).
  • Elshtain, Jean Bethke. Women and War (1995)
  • Elshtain Jean, and Sheila Tobias, eds. Women, Militarism, and War (1990)
  • Mayer, Holly A. Belonging to the Army: Camp Followers and Community during the American Revolution (University of South Carolina Press, 1996)
  • Jones, David. Women Warriors: A History (Brassey's, 1997)
  • Martino, Gina M. Women at War in the Borderlands of the Early American Northeast (University of North Carolina Press, 2018).
  • Pennington, Reina. Amazons to Fighter Pilots: A Biographical Dictionary of Military Women (2003).

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