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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

Beloe's Herodotus.
  Booth's Diodorus Siculus.
  Hearne's Justin.
  Murphy's Tacitus.
  Suetonius (Bohn's Classical Library).
  Abbé Guyon.  Histoire des Amazones. Paris, 1740.
  Rollin.  Histoire Ancienne.
  Grote.  History of Greece.
  Gibbon.  Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire.
  Mills.  History of Mohammedism.
  Neale.  Islamism: its Rise and Progress.
  Miss Strickland.  Queens of England and Scotland.
  Mrs. Matthew Hall.  Queens of England before the Conquest.
  Mrs. Forbes Bush.  Queens of France.
  Michaud.  Histoire des Croisades.
  Lingard.  History of England.
  Sir J. Mackintosh.  History of England.
  Tytler.  History of Scotland; and Worthies of Scotland.
  Wolfgang Menzel.  History of Germany (Mrs. Geo. Horrocks).
  Kelly.  History of Russia.
  Coxe.  House of Austria.
  Motley.  Rise of the Dutch Republic.
  Berriat St. Prix.  Jeanne d'Arc.  Paris, 1817.
  Lebrun des Charmettes.  Hist. de Jeanne d'Arc.  Paris, 1817.
  Jollois.  Hist. Abrégée de la Vie et Exploits de Jeanne d'Arc.
        Paris, 1821.
  Prescott.  Conquest of Mexico.
  Ralegh's Guiana.  With Introduction and Notes, by Sir Robert Schomburgh
        (Hackluyt Society).
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        (Defoe).
  Lamartine.  Hist. of the Girondists.  (Capt. Rafter)
  Sir John Carr.  Tour through Spain.
  Maria Graham.  Journal of a Voyage to Brazil, etc.
  Garibaldi.  An Autobiography.  Edited by Alexandre Dumas.
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        an Austrian Officer.  London, 1850.
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        1794.
  Gladwin.  History of Hindostan.
  Francklin.  History of Shah Aulum, Emperor of Hindostan.
  Private Life of an Eastern King.
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  Bruce's Travels.
  Winwood Reade.  Savage Africa.  1864.
  Duncan.  Travels in Dahomey.  1847.
  Captain Burton.  Mission to Dahomé.  1864.
  Matilda Betham.  Cyclopædia of Female Biography.
  Mrs. Ellet.  Women Artists.
  Fullom.  History of Woman.
  Mrs. Hale.  Woman's Record.
  Mrs. Starling.  Noble Deeds of Woman.
  Watson.  Heroic Women of History.  Philadelphia. 1852.
  Wilson's Wonderful Characters.  1821.
  Kirby's Wonderful and Eccentric Museum.  1820.
  Annual Register.
  Notes and Queries.
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  Edinburgh Annual Register.
  Biographie Universelle.
    Etc. etc.

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FEMALE WARRIORS.




I.

     Mythology.--Warlike Goddesses.--The Amazons.--The Sarmatians.--The
     Machlyes and Auses.--The Zaveces.--More Modern Tribes of Amazons
     in Asia and Africa.

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