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The female soldier : or, the surprising life and adventures of Hannah Snell, Born in the City of Worcester, who took upon herself the name of James Gray; and, being deserted by her husband, put on mens apparel, and travelled to Coventry in quest of him, where she enlisted in Col. Guise's Regiment of Foot, and marched with that Regiment to Carlisle, in the Time of the Rebellion in Scotland; shewing what happened to her in that City, and her Desertion from that Regiment. Also a full and true account of her enlisting afterwards into Fraser's Regiment of Marines, then at Portsmouth; and her being draughted out of that Regiment, and sent on board the Swallow Sloop of War, one of Admiral Boscawen's Squadron, then bound for the East-Indies. With the many Vicissitudes of Fortune she met with during that Expedition, particularly at the Siege of Pondicherry, where she received Twelve Wounds. Likewise, the surprising Accident by which she came to hear of the Death of her faithless Husband, whom she went in quest of. The Whole Containing The most surprising Incidents that have happened in any preceeding Age; wherein is laid open all her Adventures, in Mens Cloaths, for near five Years, without her Sex being ever discovered.

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Book
Language:
English
Subjects (All):
Snell, Hannah, 1723-1792.
Snell, Hannah.
Physical Description:
1 online resource ([2],31-32,29-30,9-187,[1]p.,plates ) ill.,port. ;
Other Title:
Female soldier
Place of Publication:
London : printed for, and sold by R. Walker, the Corner of Elliot's-Court, in the Little Old-Bailey, 1750.
Notes:
Text continuous despite pagination.
Reproduction of original from William Andrews Clark Memorial Library (UCLA).
Cited in:
English Short Title Catalog, N6597.
OCLC:
642217841

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