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 This is a timeline of women in warfare in the United States up until the end of World War II. It encompasses the colonial era and indigenous peoples, as well as the entire geographical modern United States, even though some of the areas mentioned ...

Timeline of women in warfare from 18th century warfare worldwide (except the present US)

18th century

* 1700–1721: An unnamed woman serves in the Swedish army in the

Great Northern War In the Great Northern War (1700–1721) a coalition led by the Tsardom of Russia successfully contested the supremacy of the Swedish Empire in Northern Europe, Northern, Central Europe, Central and Eastern Europe. The initial leaders of the ant ...

; after the war, she is seen wearing men's clothing on the streets of Stockholm until the 1740s, where she was known as "The Rider". * 1700s:

Tomasa Tito Condemayta Doña Tomasa Ttito Condemayta Hurtado de Mendoza (1729 – 18 May 1781) was a leading force in the indigenous uprising against the Spanish colonial rulers under Tupac Amaru II in the 18th century in Peru. She was cacica of her people in the 1770s, ...

acts as a military strategist and leader of a woman's battalion during

Rebellion of Túpac Amaru II The Rebellion of Túpac Amaru II (4 November 1780 – 15 March 1783) was an uprising by ''cacique''-led Aymara, Quechua, and ''mestizo'' rebels aimed at overthrowing Spanish colonial rule in Peru. The causes of the rebellion included opposit ...

. * 1700s:

Maria Ursula d'Abreu e Lencastro Maria may refer to: People * Mary, mother of Jesus * Maria (given name), a popular given name in many languages Place names Extraterrestrial *170 Maria, a Main belt S-type asteroid discovered in 1877 *Lunar maria (plural of ''mare''), large, da ...

joined the Portuguese

navy A navy, naval force, military maritime fleet, war navy, or maritime force is the military branch, branch of a nation's armed forces principally designated for naval warfare, naval and amphibious warfare; namely, lake-borne, riverine, littoral z ...

dressed as a man under the name Balthazar do Conto Cardoso, sailed for Portugal, joined the army, and took part in battles in India. * 1700s:

Ingela Gathenhielm Ingela Olofsdotter Gathenhielm (née Hammar; 11 September 1692 – 29 April 1729) was a Swedish shipowner and privateer in service of King Charles XII of Sweden during the Great Northern War.Larsson, Lisbeth, Hundrade och en Göteborgskvinnor, G ...

serves as a

privateer A privateer is a private person or vessel which engages in commerce raiding under a commission of war. Since robbery under arms was a common aspect of seaborne trade, until the early 19th century all merchant ships carried arms. A sovereign o ...

for King

Charles XII of Sweden Charles XII, sometimes Carl XII () or Carolus Rex (17 June 1682 – 30 November 1718 Old Style and New Style dates, O.S.), was King of Sweden from 1697 to 1718. He belonged to the House of Palatinate-Zweibrücken, a branch line of the House of ...

.Larsson, Lisbeth, Hundrade och en Göteborgskvinnor, Göteborg, 2018 * 1700s:

Margareta von Ascheberg Margareta von Ascheberg (9 July 1671 – 26 October 1753) was a Swedish countess, landowner, and acting regiment colonel during the Great Northern War. Early life and marriage Margareta von Ascheberg was the youngest named child of Field Mar ...

acting colonel of her dead husband's regiment during the

. * 1700: During the Battle of Narva, Swedish forces manage to capture some of the Russian soldiers besieging Narva, and discover them to be women dressed as males. * 1700:

Charlotte Amalie of Hesse-Cassel Charlotte Amalie of Hesse-Kassel (27 April 1650 – 27 March 1714) was Queen of Denmark and Norway by marriage to King Christian V. Although she did not have much political influence, she was a successful businesswoman in her many estates and pr ...

organize the defense of

Copenhagen Copenhagen ( ) is the capital and most populous city of Denmark, with a population of 1.4 million in the Urban area of Copenhagen, urban area. The city is situated on the islands of Zealand and Amager, separated from Malmö, Sweden, by the ...

against invasion. * 1700–1709:

Tarabai Maharani Tarabai Bhonsle ( Marathi: ̪aːɾabaːi; ; 1675 – 9 December 1761) was the regent of the Maratha Empire from 1700 until 1708. She was the queen of Rajaram I, and daughter-in-law of the kingdom's founder Shivaji I. She is acclaim ...

, an empress of the

Maratha Empire The Maratha Empire, also referred to as the Maratha Confederacy, was an early modern India, early modern polity in the Indian subcontinent. It comprised the realms of the Peshwa and four major independent List of Maratha dynasties and states, Ma ...

in India, becomes the Empress regent of her son and successfully fights and defeats the

Mughals The Mughal Empire was an early modern empire in South Asia. At its peak, the empire stretched from the outer fringes of the Indus River Basin in the west, northern Afghanistan in the northwest, and Kashmir in the north, to the highlands of pre ...

. * 1700–1712:

fights in the Portuguese army in India. * 1702:

Anna Isabella Gonzaga Anna Isabella Gonzaga (12 February 1655 – 11 August 1703) was a Duchess consort of Mantua and Montferrat and heiress of the Duchy of Guastalla, including Luzzara and Reggiolo; she married in 1671 to Ferdinando Carlo Gonzaga, Duke of Mantua and M ...

, Duchess of Mantua, defends Mantua during the

War of the Spanish Succession The War of the Spanish Succession was a European great power conflict fought between 1701 and 1714. The immediate cause was the death of the childless Charles II of Spain in November 1700, which led to a struggle for control of the Spanish E ...

as regent during the absence of her spouse. * 1702: Marij Jacobs Weijers serves in the Dutch army dressed as a male.Rudolf Dekker en Lotte van de Pol, Vrouwen in mannenkleren. De geschiedenis van een tegendraadse traditie. Europa 1500–1800 (Amsterdam 1989) * 1705:

Mai Bhago Mai Bhago also known as Mata Bhag Kaur, was a Sikh woman who led Sikh soldiers against the Mughals in 1705. She was an exceptionally skilled warrior on the battlefield and is revered as a warrior saint in Sikhism. She was known for rallying t ...

leads Sikh soldiers against the

. * 1705–1708:

Catharina Margaretha Linck Catharina Margaretha Linck (died 1721) was a Prussian woman who presented as a man for the majority of her adult life. Linck married a woman and, based on their sexual activity together, was convicted of sodomy and executed by order of King Fred ...

serves as a soldier in the armies of

Hanover Hanover ( ; ; ) is the capital and largest city of the States of Germany, German state of Lower Saxony. Its population of 535,932 (2021) makes it the List of cities in Germany by population, 13th-largest city in Germany as well as the fourth-l ...

Prussia Prussia (; ; Old Prussian: ''Prūsija'') was a Germans, German state centred on the North European Plain that originated from the 1525 secularization of the Prussia (region), Prussian part of the State of the Teutonic Order. For centuries, ...

Hesse Hesse or Hessen ( ), officially the State of Hesse (), is a States of Germany, state in Germany. Its capital city is Wiesbaden, and the largest urban area is Frankfurt, which is also the country's principal financial centre. Two other major hist ...

, and Poland. * 1705: Grietje Harmense Knipsaar serves in the Dutch army dressed as a male under the name Dirk Jansen. * 1706: Gertruid ter Brugge serves in the Dutch dragoons and is afterward a local celebrity known as "La Dragonne". * 1709–10: The Hungarian noblewoman Géczy Julianna defends Lőcse against the Habsburg forces during the rebellion of

Francis II Rákóczi Francis II Rákóczi (, ; 27 March 1676 – 8 April 1735) was a Hungarian nobleman and leader of the Rákóczi's War of Independence against the Habsburgs in 1703–1711 as the prince () of the Estates Confederated for Liberty of the Kingdom of ...

1710s

* 1710s: During the

Maria Faxell Maria Faxell, née ''Caméen'' (1678-1738), was a Swedish vicar's wife who, according to legend, averted a Norwegian attack in Sweden during the Great Northern War. Maria Faxell was the daughter of Benedictus Svenonis Caméen and Christina Carlberg ...

, the wife of a vicar, defends her village against a Norwegian attack by handing out old weapons to both men and women during her husband's absence. * 1711–1721:

operates the Swedish Privateering fleet jointly with her husband during the Great Northern War; when widowed in 1718, she continues herself. * 1712–1714:

Anna Jöransdotter Anna Jöransdotter (1695 - d. ''after'' 1715), was a '' Swedish-Finnish'' soldier. She served in the army of Charles XII of Sweden for two years during the Great Northern War, and married a woman. Her case is the perhaps most researched Swedish case ...

from Finland serves in the Swedish army under the named Johan Haritu.Borgström Eva, ed (2002). Makalösa kvinnor: könsöverskridare i myt och verklighet (Marvelous Women: genderbenders in myth and reality) Stockholm: Alfabeta/Anamma. Libris 8707902. (inb.) (Swedish) * 1712–1717: Three unnamed females are discovered to have served in the Dutch Marines dressed as males. * 1713–1721:

Margareta Elisabeth Roos Margareta Elisabeth Roos or Anna Stina Roos (1696–1772) was a Swedish woman and a crossdresser who served as a soldier in the Swedish army of Charles XII of Sweden during the Great Northern War. Biography Margareta Elisabeth Roos (She is also ca ...

serves in the Swedish army while disguised as a man. * 1713–1726:

Ulrika Eleonora Stålhammar Ulrika Eleonora Stålhammar (1683 in Svenarum – 16 February 1733 at Björnskog in Hultsjö), was a Swedish corporal and crossdresser who served in the Great Northern War. She was put on trial for having served in the military posing as a man ...

serves in the Swedish army under

during the

. * 1713–1714: Annika Svahn, as well as several other enslaved Finnish women taken captive by the Russians, are forced to participate in the Russian conquest of Swedish Finland on the battle fields during the

Greater Wrath The Great Wrath (, in contemporary sources: , ; ) was a period of Finnish history dominated by the Russian invasion and subsequent military occupation of Finland, then part of the Swedish Empire, from 1714 until the Treaty of Nystad (1721), ...

dressed in Russian

dragoon Dragoons were originally a class of mounted infantry, who used horses for mobility, but dismounted to fight on foot. From the early 17th century onward, dragoons were increasingly also employed as conventional cavalry and trained for combat wi ...

uniforms. * 1715: Two unnamed women are rumored to have served among the soldiers in the Swedish army, one of them a wife of one of the soldiers, who by this point was to have served for a period of four years. * 1715–1718: Anna Maria Christmann serves in the Austrian army under

Prince Eugene of Savoy Prince Eugene Francis of Savoy-Carignano (18 October 1663 – 21 April 1736), better known as Prince Eugene, was a distinguished Generalfeldmarschall, field marshal in the Army of the Holy Roman Empire and of the Austrian Habsburg dynasty durin ...

during the

Ottoman–Venetian War (1714–1718) The Seventh Ottoman–Venetian War (also called the Second Morean War,Lane (1973), p. 411 the Small War or, in Croatia, the War of Sinj) was fought between the Republic of Venice and the Ottoman Empire between 1714 and 1718. It was the last co ...

. * 1716: Norwegian

Anna Colbjørnsdatter Anna Colbjørnsdatter Arneberg (1667–1736) was a Norwegian national heroine who was most known for her participation in the Battle of Norderhov (''slaget på Norderhov'') during the Great Northern War. Anna Colbjørnsdatter was born at the Sø ...

is granted the success in the victory over the Swedes at the Battle of Norderhov in Norway during the

29 March 1716 by capturing 600 Swedish soldiers. * 1716: Norwegian Kari Hiran averts the Swedish attempt to conquer Norway by feeding them false information about the size of the Norwegian army. * 1718:

Hangbe Hangbe (or Hangbè, also Ahangbe or Na Hangbe) was a woman who served as the King of Dahomey, regent of the Kingdom of Dahomey for a brief period before Agaja came to power in 1718. According to oral tradition, she became regent upon the sudden d ...

in the

Kingdom of Dahomey The Kingdom of Dahomey () was a West African kingdom located within present-day Benin that existed from approximately 1600 until 1904. It developed on the Abomey Plateau amongst the Fon people in the early 17th century and became a regional ...

becomes the regent after her twin brother Akaba is killed. She may have led military campaigns. * 1719:

Brita Olsdotter Brita Olsdotter (fl. 1719) was an old Swedish woman who, according to legend, saved the city of Linköping from being burnt by the Russians during the Great Northern War. In 1719, in the last years of the war, Sweden was invaded by the Russian a ...

, an old Swedish woman, meets the Russian army, who marches against

Linköping Linköping ( , ) is a city in southern Sweden, with around 167,000 inhabitants as of 2024. It is the seat of Linköping Municipality and the capital of Östergötland County. Linköping is also the episcopal see of the Diocese of Linköping (Chu ...

after having burnt

Norrköping Norrköping ( , ) is a city in the province of Östergötland in eastern Sweden and the seat of Norrköping Municipality, Östergötland County, about 160 km southwest of the national capital Stockholm, 40 km east of county seat Lin ...

, and makes them turn around and leave after telling them that reinforcements were arriving to assist Linköping.

1720s

* 1720–1739: Granny Nanny, a spiritual leader of the

Maroons Maroons are descendants of Africans in the Americas and islands of the Indian Ocean who escaped from slavery, through flight or manumission, and formed their own settlements. They often mixed with Indigenous peoples, eventually evolving into ...

Jamaica Jamaica is an island country in the Caribbean Sea and the West Indies. At , it is the third-largest island—after Cuba and Hispaniola—of the Greater Antilles and the Caribbean. Jamaica lies about south of Cuba, west of Hispaniola (the is ...

, leads rebel slaves to victory in

First Maroon War The First Maroon War was a conflict between the Jamaican Maroons and the colonial British authorities that started around 1728 and continued until the peace treaties of 1739 and 1740. It was led by Indigenous Jamaicans who helped Africans to set ...

. * 1721: Comtesse de Polignac, previously the lover of Duc de Richelieu, fights a duel with her rival and successor, the Marchioness de Nesle. * 1722: Six unnamed females are shipped back to the Netherlands after having been exposed to have served as males in either the Dutch Marines or army in an attempt to emigrate to the Dutch East Indies. * 1723: Lumke Thoole serve in the Dutch navy dressed as a male under the name Jan Theunisz. * 1725: Dutch woman Maria ter Meetelen serves in the Spanish army dressed as a man. * 1726: Maria Elisabeth Meening served in the Dutch navy dressed as a male. * 1727:

Dahomey Amazons The Dahomey Amazons ( Fon: Agojie, Agoji, Mino, or Minon) were a Fon all-female military regiment of the Kingdom of Dahomey (in today's Benin, West Africa) that existed from the 17th century until the late 19th century. They were the only femal ...

are founded.

1730s

* 1732: An unnamed female serves in the Dutch army dressed as a male. * 1733: Breffu leads the 1733 slave insurrection on St. John. * 1738–1752: Johanna Sophia Kettner serve in the imperial Austrian infantry for fourteen years in the guise of a man and is promoted to ''

feldwebel '' '' (Fw or F, ) is a non-commissioned officer (NCO) rank in several countries. The rank originated in Germany, and is also used in Switzerland, Finland, Sweden, and Estonia. The rank has also been used in Russia, Austria-Hungary, occupied Serbia ...

''.

1740s

* 1740: Ann Mills fights on the frigate ''Maidenstone'' as a dragoon. * 1741–1743: Maria van de Gijessen served in the Dutch navy under then name Claes van de Gijessen. * 1743: Johanna Sophia Kettner disguises herself as a man and enlists in the Austrian army. * 1744: An unnamed female serve in the Dutch navy dressed as a male. * 1745: Jacobina (last name unknown) served in the Dutch navy dressed as a male. * 1745: An unnamed female served in the Dutch navy dressed as a male. * 1745: Phoebe Hessel fights in the

Battle of Fontenoy The Battle of Fontenoy took place on 11 May 1745 during the War of the Austrian Succession, near Tournai, then in the Austrian Netherlands, now Belgium. A French army of 50,000 under Maurice, comte de Saxe, Marshal Saxe defeated a Pragmatic Ar ...

. She had disguised herself as a man to do so. * 1745: Scottish Mary Ralphson fights in the British army in

dressed as a man * 1746: Johanna Bennius serve in the Dutch navy dressed as a male under the name Jan Drop. * 1746: Elisabeth Huyser serve in the Dutch army dressed as a male. * 1746–1769:

Maria van Antwerpen Maria van Antwerpen (1719 – 1781) was a Dutch soldier and seamstress who Wartime cross-dressers, disguised herself as a man to enlist in the Dutch States Army. She is considered by the Dutch historians Rudolf Dekker and L.J.M. van de Pol as a ...

serves as a soldier in the Netherlands under the name Jan van Art. * 1748: Gertruid van Duiren enlists and briefly serve in the Dutch army before being discovered * 1747–1750: Hannah Snell, serve disguised as a man in the

Royal Marine The Royal Marines provide the United Kingdom's amphibious warfare, amphibious special operations capable commando force, one of the :Fighting Arms of the Royal Navy, five fighting arms of the Royal Navy, a Company (military unit), company str ...

: her military service is officially recognized in 1750, and she is granted a pension.

1750s

* 1750: Maria Sophia Stording serve in the Dutch navy dressed as a man. * 1751: Two unnamed soldiers of the Dutch navy are discovered to be females dressed as males. * 1754: An unnamed female serve in the Dutch army dressed as a man. * 1755: An unnamed female serve in the Dutch navy dressed as a man. * 1756: Soldier Jochem Wiesse of the Dutch army are discovered to be a female dressed as a male. * 1757: Sailor "Arthur Douglas" is revealed to be a woman. Her birth-name is unknown.Suzanne J. Stark: Female tars: women aboard ship in the age of sail. Naval Institute Press, 1996 * 1757: An unnamed female serve in the Dutch army dressed as a man. * 1757–58: Two unnamed females serve in the Dutch navy dressed as a males. * 1759–1771: Mary Lacy serves as a Marine carpenter under the name of "William Chandler".

1760s

* 1760s: Petronella van den Kerkhof possibly serve in the Dutch army as a grenadier: however, as she was not discovered during service, this is unconfirmed. * 1760–1761: A woman serves in the British Marines as "William Prothero". * 1762: Rafaela Herrera inspires the outnumbered Spanish defenders to victory during a 1762 British siege of the

Fortress of the Immaculate Conception The Fortress of the Immaculate Conception, ( Spanish: ''El Castillo de la Inmaculada Concepción'') is a fortification located on the southern bank of the San Juan River (''Río San Juan''), in the village of El Castillo in southern Nicaragua. T ...

in El Castillo village within El Castillo municipality,

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. * 1763: After the assassination of her husband

Diego Diego is a Spanish masculine given name. The Portuguese equivalent is Diogo. The etymology of Diego is disputed, with two major origin hypotheses: ''Tiago'' and ''Didacus''. The name also has several patronymic derivations, listed below. ...

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Gabriela Silang María Josefa Gabriela Cariño de Silang (; March 19, 1731 – September 20, 1763) was a Filipino military leader best known for her role as the female leader of the Ilocano independence movement from Spain. She took over from her second hus ...

decided to continue his rebellion in

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against Spain but was unsuccessful. * 1764: The Dutch soldier Tiesheld is discovered to be a female dressed as a male. * 1765: An unnamed member of the Dutch navy is discovered to be a female dressed as a male. * 1768: Birth of

Mah Laqa Bai Mah Laqa Bai (7 April 1768 – August 1824), born Chanda Bai, and sometimes referred to as Mah Laqa Chanda, was an Indian 18th century Urdu poet, courtesan (tawaif) and philanthropist based in Hyderabad. In 1824, she became the first female po ...

. Due to her archery skills, she accompanied the Nizam II ( Mir Nizam Ali Khan) in three wars; * 1769: Anna Sophia Spiesen serve in the Dutch army dressed as a male under the name Claas Paulusse.

1770s

* 1770–1771: Margareta Reymers serve in the Dutch navy dressed as a man: she is discovered by her pregnancy. * 1772: Mademoiselle de Guignes and Mademoiselle d'Aguillon fight a duel in Paris. * 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. * 1778: Baltazara Chuiza leads a rebellion against the Spanish in Ecuador. * 1778: Sikh princess

Bibi Rajindar Kaur Bibi Rajindar Kaur (1739–1791), also known as Rajindan or Rajindran, was a Sikh princess of Patiala. Kaur was the granddaughter of Ala Singh, the founder and first Raja of Patiala, and the first cousin of Amar Singh, the Raja-e-Rajgan and s ...

leads 3,000 soldiers to rescue her cousin who was defeated by

Hari Singh Hari Singh Bahadur (September 1895 – 26 April 1961) was the last ruling Maharaja of the princely state of Jammu and Kashmir of the Dogra dynasty. Hari Singh was the son of Amar Singh and Bhotiali Chib. In 1923, following his uncle's deat ...

. * 1778–1803: The ruling Princess of Sardhana,

Begum Samru Joanna Nobilis Sombre ( – 27 January 1836), popularly known as Begum Samru (née Farzana Zeb un-Nissa),. a convert Catholic Christian, started her career as a nautch (dancing) girl in 18th-century India, and eventually became the ruler of Sa ...

(Johanna Noblis), leads her armies in war..

1780s

* 1780:

Rani Velu Nachiar "Veeramangai" Rani Velu Nachiyar (3 January 1730 – 25 December 1796) was a queen of Sivaganga estate from 1780–1790. She was the first Indian queen to wage war with the East India Company in India.East India Company The East India Company (EIC) was an English, and later British, joint-stock company that was founded in 1600 and dissolved in 1874. It was formed to Indian Ocean trade, trade in the Indian Ocean region, initially with the East Indies (South A ...

forces In physics, a force is an influence that can cause an object to change its velocity unless counterbalanced by other forces. In mechanics, force makes ideas like 'pushing' or 'pulling' mathematically precise. Because the magnitude and directi ...

. * 1780:

Manuela Beltrán Manuela Beltrán was a Neogranadine woman who organized a peasant revolt against excess taxation in 1780. General settings The information concerning the biography of Manuela Beltran is scarce and fragmented. It is believed she was of peasant or ...

organizes a peasant revolt in Colombia. * 1780:

Ñusta Huillac Ñusta Huillac was a Qulla leader who rebelled against the Spanish in the Atacama Desert (present-day Tarapacá Region, Chile) in the 1780s. She was nicknamed La Tirana (Spanish for "the Tyrant") because of her alleged mistreatment of prisoners ...

of the Kolla tribe rebels against the Spanish in Chile. * 1780s: Swedish runaway Carin du Rietz becomes a soldier at the royal guard. * 1780–1781:

Micaela Bastidas Puyucahua Micaela Bastidas Puyucahua (born in Tamburco District, Tamburco, 1744; died in Cusco, May 18, 1781) was a pioneering Indigenous peoples of the Americas, indigenous leader against Spanish Empire, Spanish rule in South America, and a martyr for Per ...

recruits and leads men and women in battle during a rebellion against the Spanish rule in Peru. She is eventually captured and executed by the Spanish. * 1780–1781: Maria van Spanje serve in the Dutch navy for eight months dressed as a male: she is discovered while trying to repeat this when enlisting anew in 1782. * 1781: Lena Catharina Wasmoet serve in the Dutch navy dressed as a man under the name Claas Waal. * 1781: Gregoria Apaza, an

Aymara Aymara may refer to: Languages and people * Aymaran languages, the second most widespread Andean language ** Aymara language, the main language within that family ** Central Aymara, the other surviving branch of the Aymara(n) family, which today ...

woman, leads an uprising against the Spanish in Bolivia. * 1781: Margaret Thompson serves in the

Royal Marines The Royal Marines provide the United Kingdom's amphibious warfare, amphibious special operations capable commando force, one of the :Fighting Arms of the Royal Navy, five fighting arms of the Royal Navy, a Company (military unit), company str ...

under the name George Thompson. * 1782: Anna Maria Everts serve in the Dutch navy dressed as a man. * 1782:

Bartolina Sisa Bartolina Sisa Vargas ( 1750 – 5 September 1782) was an Aymaran woman and indigenous heroine who led numerous revolts against the Spanish rule in Charcas, then part of the Viceroyalty of Peru and present-day Bolivia. Alongside her husband, ...

, an

woman who led an indigenous uprising against the Spanish in Bolivia, is captured and executed. * 1783: Johanna Dorothea Heeght serve in the Dutch navy dressed as a man under the name Johannes Hegt. * 1785: According to Thai legend,

Thao Thep Kasattri and Thao Sri Sunthon ''Thao'' Thep Krasattri ( 1735 – 1792) and ''Thao'' Si Sunthon (), formerly ''Khun Ying'' Chan () and ''Khun Ying'' Muk (), respectively, are Thai national heroines who were known for their important roles in successfully repelling the Burmese ...

, two sisters, help repel a Burmese invasion of

Thailand Thailand, officially the Kingdom of Thailand and historically known as Siam (the official name until 1939), is a country in Southeast Asia on the Mainland Southeast Asia, Indochinese Peninsula. With a population of almost 66 million, it spa ...

by dressing as male soldiers and rallying the troops. * 1787–1807: A woman serves twenty years in the

under the name "Tom Bowling" * 1787: The wife of the German colonel Schutz is reported to have accompanied her spouse dressed as a male in warfare and having been wounded two times in Russian service. * 1788–1790: After the war between Russia and Sweden, several of the soldiers decorated in the Swedish army are discovered to be women in disguise. One of them is

Brita Hagberg Brita Christina Hagberg, née Nilsdotter, alias ''Petter Hagberg'' (c. 1756 – 19 March 1825), was a woman who served as a soldier in the Swedish army during the Russo-Swedish War (1788–1790). She is one of two confirmed women to have been decor ...

, who enlisted in search of her husband; she is given a military pension. * 1788–1790: During the Russo-Swedish war, Anna Maria Engsten, after a battle at sea, singlehandedly steers one of the boats back to Sweden after having been left alone onboard after its evacuation; she is decorated for bravery at sea. * 1788–1790: During the Battle of Svensksund,

Dorothea Maria Lösch Dorothea Maria Lösch (1730 – 2 February 1799) was a Swedish master mariner, known for the incident during the Russo-Swedish War (1788–1790) in which she commandeered a Swedish ship during a crisis. She was the first female in Sweden to be ...

takes command of a Swedish ship and is rewarded with the rank of captain of the Swedish fleet.

1790s

* 1791–1813: Bulgarian heroine Sirma Voyevoda fight in the Bulgarian guerilla army against Ottoman oppression. * 1792:

Reine Audu Louise-Renée Leduc (died 1793), known as Louise Reine Audu, was a French fruit seller, known for her participation in the French Revolution. She was counted as one of the Heroines of the revolution. On 5 October 1789 she, alongside Théroigne d ...

participates in the fight with the Swiss guards in the storming of the

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. * 1792: The Greek woman

Moscho Tzavela Moscho Tzavela (; c. 1760–1803) was a Souliote woman who lived in the years before the outbreak of the Greek War of Independence, she has been extensively mentioned in modern Greek Modern Greek (, or , ), generally referred to by speaker ...

leads several women in defense of their village against the Turks. * 1792–1793: The sisters Félicité de Fernig and Théophile de Fernig, known as '' Sœurs Fernig'' serve in the French army during the battles of

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, and

Neerwinden Neerwinden () is a village in Belgium, located in the Municipalities of Belgium, municipality of Landen, in the province of Flemish Brabant, Flanders. The village gives its name to two great historical battles. The first, the Battle of Neerwind ...

. * 1792: Mary Anne Talbot may have served as a soldier and sailor in the British army during the French revolutionary wars. * 1792: Lady Braddock and Mrs. Elphinstone fight a duel in England. * 1792–1808:

Marie-Jeanne Schellinck Marie Schellinck (25 July 1757, Ghent – 1 September 1840, Menen), also known as Shelling, was an Austrian-Netherlands-born female soldier who fought in the French Revolution. Life Disguised as a man, Schellinck enlisted 1792 in the 2nd Be ...

serves in French army. She participates in the

Battle of Jemappes The Battle of Jemappes (6 November 1792) took place near the town of Jemappes in Hainaut, Austrian Netherlands (now Belgium), near Mons during the War of the First Coalition, part of the French Revolutionary Wars. One of the first major off ...

. * 1792–1799:

Angélique Brûlon Marie-Angélique Josèphe Brûlon, née Duchemin (also Angélique Duchemin, 'the widow Brûlon') (20 January 1772 – 13 July 1859), was a French soldier. Born in Dinan into a soldier family, Duchemin married a soldier named Brûlon and served fro ...

serves in the French army in Corsica. * 1793: Suzanne Bélair, called ''

Sanité Bélair Suzanne Bélair, called ''Sanite Bélair'', (c. 1781 – 5 October 1802), was a Haitian revolutionary and lieutenant in the army of Toussaint Louverture. Born an affranchi in Verrettes, Haiti, she married Brigade commander and later General Ch ...

'', serves in the armé of

Toussaint Louverture François-Dominique Toussaint Louverture (, ) also known as Toussaint L'Ouverture or Toussaint Bréda (20 May 1743 – 7 April 1803), was a Haitian general and the most prominent leader of the Haitian Revolution. During his life, Louvertu ...

during the

Haitian Revolution The Haitian Revolution ( or ; ) was a successful insurrection by slave revolt, self-liberated slaves against French colonial rule in Saint-Domingue, now the sovereign state of Haiti. The revolution was the only known Slave rebellion, slave up ...

. She was promoted to sergeant, and was executed by the French in 1802. * 1790s: Victoria Montou serves in the army of

Jean-Jacques Dessalines Jean-Jacques Dessalines (Haitian Creole: ''Jan-Jak Desalin''; ; 20 September 1758 – 17 October 1806) was the first Haitian Emperor, leader of the Haitian Revolution, and the first ruler of an independent First Empire of Haiti, Haiti under th ...

during the Haitian Revolution. * 1793:

Renée Bordereau Renée Bordereau (1770 in Soulaines-sur-Aubance – 1822 in Vezins, Maine-et-Loire), nicknamed ''The Angevin'', was a French soldier. She followed her father, disguised herself as a man, and fought as a Royalist cavalier in the troops of C ...

disguises herself as a man and fights as a Royalist cavalier in the French Revolution. * 1793: Françoise Deprés serve as a royalist spy, courier and soldier dressed as a male during the Vendée rebellion. * 1793:

Céleste Bulkeley Céleste Bulkeley (née Céleste Talour de La Cartrie; 14 May 1753 – 13 March 1832) was a French aristocrat and soldier in the Catholic and Royal Army during the war in the Vendée. She was one of at least six women in the army of François de ...

serve in the

Catholic and Royal Army The Catholic and Royal Armies () is the name given to the royalist armies in western France composed of insurgents during the war in the Vendée and the Chouannerie, who opposed the French Revolution. Catholic and Royal Army of Vendée The Ca ...

during the

war in the Vendée The War in the Vendée () was a counter-revolutionary insurrection that took place in the Vendée region of French First Republic, France from 1793 to 1796, during the French Revolution. The Vendée is a coastal region, located immediately so ...

as one of at least six women known as the amazons in the army of

François de Charette François Athanase de Charette de la Contrie (; 2 May 1763 – 29 March 1796) was a French military officer and politician. He served in the French Navy during the American Revolutionary War and was one of the leaders of the War in the Vendée a ...

. * 1793–1800:

Marie-Thérèse Figueur Marie-Thérèse Figueur ( Talmay, 17 January 1774 – Paris, hospice des Petits Ménages, 4 January 1861), known by the ''nom de guerre'' ''Sans-Gêne'' (literally "unconstrained"), was a French soldier who fought in the French Revolutionary ...

serves openly in the French army. * 1793: An unnamed female serve in the Dutch navy dressed as a man. * 1796: Sikh princess

Bibi Sahib Kaur Bibi Sahib Kaur (1771–1801) was a Sikh princess of Patiala and the elder sister of Sahib Singh, the Raja-e-Rajgan of Patiala. Sahib Kaur served as Patiala's Prime Minister and the General of the Patiala Army. She is remembered for her leader ...

leads her armies into battle against the

East India Company The East India Company (EIC) was an English, and later British, joint-stock company that was founded in 1600 and dissolved in 1874. It was formed to Indian Ocean trade, trade in the Indian Ocean region, initially with the East Indies (South A ...

. * 1796–1798: Wang Cong'er is the leader and commander of the White Lotus rebellion in China.Lily Xiao Hong Lee, Clara Lau, A.D. Stefanowska: Biographical Dictionary of Chinese Women: v. 1: The Qing Period, 1644–1911 * 1797: Rebel

Wang Nangxian Wang Nangxian (; Bouyei language, Bouyei: Waangz Naangzsianl; 1778–1798) was a female China, Chinese leader of the anti-Manchu White Lotus Rebellion along with Wang Cong'er during the reign of the Qing dynasty. Another female member of the rebel ...

commands a rebel army against the Imperial forces during the

White Lotus Rebellion The White Lotus Rebellion (, 1794–1804) was a rebellion initiated by followers of the White Lotus movement during the Qing dynasty of China. Motivated by millenarian Buddhists who promised the immediate return of the Buddha, it erupted out of ...

. * 1797:

Jemima Nicholas Jemima Nicholas (also spelt Niclas; 2 March 1755 – 16 July 1832), also known as Jemima Fawr, was a Welsh heroine during the 1797 Battle of Fishguard (commonly known as the last invasion of mainland Britain). Early life Jemima Nicholas ...

single-handedly captured 12 French soldiers armed with only a pitchfork during the

Battle of Fishguard The Battle of Fishguard was a military invasion of Great Britain by Revolutionary France during the War of the First Coalition. The brief campaign, on 22–24 February 1797, is the most recent landing on British soil by a hostile foreign forc ...

(commonly known as the last invasion of Britain). * 1797–1801: Franziska Scanagatta serve in the Austrian army: she is promoted a lieutenant in 1800. * 1798: Mary Ann Riley and Anne Hopping serve in the

during the

Battle of the Nile The Battle of the Nile (also known as the Battle of Aboukir Bay; ) was fought between the Royal Navy and the French Navy at Abu Qir Bay, Aboukir Bay in Ottoman Egypt, Egypt between 1–3 August 1798. It was the climax of the Mediterranean ca ...

against the French fleet in Egypt. * 1798:

Mary Doyle Mary Judith Jacinta Doyle (born 26 June 1970) is an Australian politician. She has been a Australian Labor Party (Victorian Branch), Labor member of the Parliament of Australia representing the Division of Aston, Federal Division of Aston sinc ...

, an Irish woman, participates in the

Irish Rebellion of 1798 The Irish Rebellion of 1798 (; Ulster Scots dialect, Ulster-Scots: ''The Turn out'', ''The Hurries'', 1798 Rebellion) was a popular insurrection against the British Crown in what was then the separate, but subordinate, Kingdom of Ireland. The m ...

on the side of the

United Irishmen The Society of United Irishmen was a sworn association, formed in the wake of the French Revolution, to secure Representative democracy, representative government in Ireland. Despairing of constitutional reform, and in defiance both of British ...

. * 1798:

Betsy Gray Elizabeth "Betsy" Gray (c. 1778 or 1780 - 1798), is a folkloric figure in the annals of the 1798 Rebellion in Ireland. Ballads, poems and popular histories celebrate her presence in the ranks of the United Irishmen, and her death, on 12 June 179 ...

fought in the

Battle of Ballynahinch The battle of Ballynahinch was a military engagement of the Irish Rebellion of 1798 between a force of roughly 4,000 United Irishmen rebels led by Henry Munro and approximately 2,000 government troops under the command of George Nugent. After ...

against the

Yeomanry Yeomanry is a designation used by a number of units and sub-units in the British Army Reserve which are descended from volunteer cavalry regiments that now serve in a variety of different roles. History Origins In the 1790s, following the ...

. * 1798–1815: Veronika Gut organize the resistance rebel movement against the French occupation of the

Helvetic Republic The Helvetic Republic (; ; ) was a sister republic of France that existed between 1798 and 1803, during the French Revolutionary Wars. It was created following the French invasion and the consequent dissolution of the Old Swiss Confederacy, ma ...

in the Swiss canton of Nidwalden.Franz Joseph Gut: Der Überfall in Nidwalden im Jahr 1798 in seinen Ursachen und Folgen. Stans 1862; Neuauflage Kägiswil 1989. * 1799: The German Antoinette Berg serve on the side of the English against the French in the Netherlands dressed as a male; during the peace festivities in London after the final defeat of Napoleon in 1814, she was presented to the Tsar of Russia and the King of Prussia.

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