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

A compelling portrait emerges of women who slipped past the strict confines of their era to fight beside men on battlefields across Europe and the New World. From legendary heroines of myth to the daring enlistments of the eighteenth‑century, the volume gathers vivid sketches of lives lived in uniform, often in disguise, and the extraordinary courage that propelled them forward.

Readers meet figures such as the French officer who held a bridge at Limerick, the Irish‑born soldier who masqueraded as a man to stay close to her lover, and the English private whose reputation still echoes in military lore. Their stories are interwoven with the social pressures that drove wives, sweethearts, and abandoned partners to trade domestic chores for drums and musket fire, revealing a hidden strand of martial history rarely told.

Through these accounts the book explores themes of loyalty, identity, and the fierce spirit that defies convention, inviting listeners to rediscover a forgotten chapter of valor that reshapes our understanding of war and gender.