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Female Warriors, Vol. 1 (of 2): Memorials of Female Valour and Heroism, from the Mythological Ages to the Present Era. — John Shaqi

Female Warriors, Vol. 1 (of 2): Memorials of Female Valour and Heroism, from the Mythological Ages to the Present Era.Clayton, Ellen C. (Ellen Creathorne)

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Female Warriors, Vol. 1 (of 2): Memorials of Female Valour and Heroism, from the Mythological Ages to the Present Era.

Name: Female Warriors, Vol. 1 (of 2): Memorials of Female Valour and Heroism, from the Mythological Ages to the Present Era.
Author: Clayton, Ellen C. (Ellen Creathorne)

Clayton, Ellen C. (Ellen Creathorne)

Amazons; Women -- Biography; Women soldiers

THE CRUSADES--French, German, and Genoese Amazons--Eleonora
  of Aquitaine--Matilda of Boulogne--Empress Maud--Aldrude,
  Countess of Bertinoro--Empress Constantia--Nichola de Camville
  (Barons' Wars)--Blanche of Castille, Queen-Regent of
  France--Women of Culm--Blanch de Rossi--Black Agnes, Countess
  of March--Countess de Montfort--Julia du Guesclin--Jane de
  Belleville, Lady of Clisson--Marzia--Margaret, Queen of Denmark,
  Norway and Sweden, the Semiramis of the North--Fair Maiden
  Lilliard (Chevy Chase)--Lady Pelham--Philippa, Queen of Denmark    102


  CHAPTER VII.

  Jeanne d'Arc, the Maid of Orleans.--Margaret de Attendoli,
  Sister of Sforza--Bona Lombardi and Onorata Rodiana, Female
  Condottieri--Marulla (Turks in Europe)--Margaret of
  Anjou--Jeanne Hachette--Doña Aldonza de Castillo, and Doña
  Maria Sarmiento (Civil Wars in Castile)--Isabel the
  Catholic--Caterina Sforza                                          134


  CHAPTER VIII.

  Maria d'Estrada, and other Spanish Women serving under the
  command of Cortez--Catalina de Erauso, the Monja Alferez
  (Nun-Lieutenant)--Doña Maria Pacheco (Confederacy of the
  Holy Junta in Castile)--Eleonora of Toledo, Grand Duchess
  of Tuscany--Turks in Hungary--Courage of a Jewess at
  Buda--Bravery of the Women of Temesvar, Erlau, Valpon, Agria,
  and Szigeth in Hungary, and of Famagosta in Cyprus--Louise
  Labé--Mary of Hungary--Granu Weal--FEMALE WARRIORS OF THE
  REFORMATION--Kenan Simonz Hasselaar--Women of Alkmaar--Mary,
  Queen of Scots--Magdalaine de Saint-Nectaire--Constance de
  Cezelli--Christine de Lalaing, Princess d'Espinoy--Queen
  Elizabeth--English and Scottish Heroines--Barbara of Ernecourt
  (Thirty Years' War)--Christina of Sweden                           164


  CHAPTER IX.

  THE AMAZONS IN SOUTH AMERICA                                       198


  CHAPTER X.

  Lady Offaley (IRISH REBELLION, 1641)--Lady Arundell--Lady
  Bankes--Countess of Derby (CIVIL WARS IN ENGLAND)--Helena
  Zrinyi, Wife of Tekeli, the Hungarian Patriot--Incident at
  the Coronation of William and Mary--Lady Newcombe (James II.
  in Ireland)--Madame de Vercheres--Mademoiselle de la Charce        208




LIST OF THE PRINCIPAL AUTHORITIES CONSULTED.

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