The following is a list of women in war and their exploits from about 1800 up to about 1899.

For women in warfare in the United States at this time, please see Timeline of women in war in the United States, pre-1945.

Only women active in direct warfare, such as warriors, spies, and women who actively led armies are included in this list.

1800s Early 19th century: Geertrudia van den Heuvel served as corporal in the Netherlands dressed as a man under the name Jacobus Philippus Vermeij.

1802: Bùi Thị Xuân, the general of rebel forces during the Tây Sơn Rebellion in Vietnam, is captured and executed by her enemies. 1802: Marie-Jeanne Lamartinière served at the Battle of Crête-à-Pierrot. 1802: Mai Sukhan defends the town of Amritsar against Ranjit Singh. 1802: La Mulâtresse Solitude participates in the former slaves fight for freedom in the Battle of 18 May, when slavery was reintroduced on Guadeloupe by Napoleon. 1803: Lorenza Avemanay led a revolt against Spanish occupation in Ecuador.The Northeastern Dictionary of Women's Biography: Revised by Maggy Hendry 1803: Madame d'Oettlinger served as a spy for Napoleon in Germany.Wilhelmina Stålberg (Swedish): Anteqningar om Svenska kvinnor (Notes on Swedish women) 1805: Jane Townsend served aboard HMS Defiance during the Battle of Trafalgar. 18051812: Marie-Thérèse Figueur served under Napoleon and Jean-Louis Dubreton during the War of the Third Coalition, the War of the Fourth Coalition, and the Peninsular War. 1806-1812: Virginie Ghesquière took her brother's place in the 27th Line regiment of Napoleon's army, served during the Peninsular War under Andoche Junot, was promoted to lieutenant, and in 1857 was awarded the Saint Helena medal.A. Forrest, K. Hagemann, J. Rendall: Soldiers, Citizens and Civilians: Experiences and Perceptions 1805: Marie-Jeanne Schellinck served in the Battle of Austerlitz.Léonce Grabilier: Jeanne Schellinck in: L'Intermédiaire des chercheurs et curieux (frz.), 1909 1806: Manuela Pedraza fought in the reconquest of Buenos Aires after the first British invasion of the Río de la Plata.Lily Sosa de Newton (1980). "Diccionario Biográfico de Mujeres Argentinas" ("Biographic Dictionary of Argentine Women"). Plus Ultra: Buenos Aires. (Spanish) 1807–1816: Nadezhda Durova served in the Russian army. She earned the cross of St George for valour in combat and became the Russian army's first female officer.Durova, Nadezhda, The Cavalry Maiden: Journals of a Russian Officer in the Napoleonic Wars trans. Mary Fleming Zirin. Indiana University Press, 1989. 1808: Juana Galán was a guerrilla fighter of the Peninsular War (1808–1814).Rudorff, Raymond (1974) War to the death: the sieges of Saragossa, 1808–1809, p. 101. Hamilton. At Google Books. Retrieved 25 August 2013. 1808: Manuela Malasaña participated in The 2nd of May Uprising in Madrid (1808) against the troops of Napoleon I of France during the Peninsular War. 1808: Agustina de Aragón defended Spain during the Spanish War of Independence.Queralt del Hierro, María Pilar, Agustina de Aragón, la mujer y el mito, Madrid, La Esfera de los Libros, 2008. During the bloody sieges of Saragossa, French General Jean-Antonie Verdier started the attack with a twenty-seven-hour bombardment of Zaragoza. At the Portillo Gate, most of the Spanish defenders had been killed or wounded, and on 2 July 1808 a French column launched an assault on the unmanned Portillo Gate battery. Observing the danger, twenty-two-year-old Agustina rushed forward to a twenty-four-pound cannon, retrieved the still-burning wick from the hands of a fallen gunner, and fired the cannon loaded with grapeshot at the advancing French column that decimated it and gave Spanish reinforcements time to arrive from a nearby battery to repel the attack. Agustina herself explained the facts in a memorial signed in Sevilla city in date 12 August 1810. 1808–1809: Elisa Servenius enlisted in the Swedish army dressed as a man because "She had decided to live and to die with her husband", the soldier Bernhard Servenus; she participated in the war between Sweden and Russia over Finland and, during one battle, she collected ammunition from the Russians and gave them to her comrades. She was later discovered and discharged but decorated with a medal for bravery in battle.Cecilia af Klercker (översättning och redigering) (1942). Hedvig Elisabeth Charlottas dagbok VIII. P.A. Norstedt & Söners förlag. 1809–1813: Joanna Żubr served in the Polish army.Encyklopedia Wojen Napoleońskich – R. Bielecki ("Encyclopedia of the Napoleonic Wars" in Polish) She received the Virtuti Militari, the first woman to be granted the highest Polish military award. 1809–1825: Juana Azurduy de Padilla acted as a guerrilla leader in Bolivia.Pallis, Michael Slaves of Slaves: The Challenge of Latin American Women (London: Zed Press, 1980) p. 24

1810s 1810s: Juana Ramírez commands a group of female rebel soldiers during the Venezuelan War of Independence. 1810s: Teriitaria II personally leads armies into battle. 1810, Sweden: Maria Nilsdotter i Ölmeskog dissolves a potential rebel army and is rewarded by the monarch for having prevented a rebellion.Hedvig Elisabet Charlotta; Klercker Cecilia af (1942). Hedvig Elisabeth Charlottas dagbok. 9, 1812–1817. Stockholm: Norstedt. p. 689 1811–1812: María Feliciana joined the pro-independence rebellion in El Salvador along with her sisters and helped in the capture of Sensuntepeque. 1811–1817: Gertrudis Bocanegra serves as a spy, a messenger and a guerrilla fighter during the Mexican War of Independence.(Spanish) "Bocanegra de Lazo de la Vega, Gertrudis," Enciclopedia de México, v. 2. Mexico City, 1988. 1811–1817: María Martínez provides reports as a spy to the rebel army during the Mexican War of Independence. She is fined and jailed several times, and is eventually executed. 1812: Vasilisa Kozhina leads a Russian partisan group against Napoleon.Creatures, p. 138 Leonid Tishkov, 1994 1812: Marie Manuel and her husband Blaise Peuxe serve together as gunners in a French artillery unit during the Peninsular War. They are captured together when the British Army enters Madrid in August 1812, and become prisoners of war in Scotland, where Marie is officially acknowledged as an enemy combatant rather than simply a camp follower, wearing uniform and avoiding the repatriation imposed on other prisoners' attendant families. The memoirs of another prisoner hint that she was a Spanish girl who had met her husband when she saved him from guerrillas in 1811, but this source may combine the story of the husband-and-wife gunners with elements of the biographies of other female prisoners-of-war in the same group.Ian MacDougall, All Men are Brethren: French, Scandinavian, Italian, German, Dutch, Belgian, Spanish, Polish, West Indian, American, and Other Prisoners of War in Scotland, 1803–1814 (John Donald, Edinburgh 2008), pp. 162–64, 227, 723–24 1812–1814: Francina Broese Gunningh serve in the French, the Prussian and finally in the Dutch army dressed as a male under the name Frans Gunningh Sloet.Rudolf Dekker en Lotte van de Pol, Vrouwen in mannenkleren. De geschiedenis van een tegendraadse traditie. Europa 1500–1800 (Amsterdam 1989) 1813: Eleonore Prochaska was killed fighting for the Lützow Free Corps.Berlinische Nachrichten von Staats- und gelehrten Sachen (in German) (120). 7 October 1813 1813: Manuela Medina participates in active warfare in the Battle of Acapulco during the Mexican War of Independence.Secretaría de Educación Pública. Comisión Nacional de Libros de Texto Gratuitos. (2007) (en español). Historia. Cuarto Grado. . 1813–1815: Anna Lühring(German) Herbert Schwarzwälder: Berühmte Bremer. Paul-List-Verlag, Munich 1976, , S. 62–70. and Friederike KrügerAnita Heiden-Berndt: Friederike Auguste Krüger. Historisch-biographischer Roman. Neubrandenburg, 1994. serve in the Prussian army during the Napoleonic Wars. 1813: Laura Secord Canadian heroine of the War of 1812 1813: Johanna Stegen participates in the defense of the city of Lüneburg against the French.Germany in the Modern World: A New History By Sam A. Mustafa p. 103 1814: Ghaliyya al-Wahhabiyya defend Mecca against the Ottomans with her own Wahhabi army at the Battle of Turaba.Vassiliev, Alexei (2000). The History of Saudi Arabia. NYU Press. . (Chapter 5). 1814: Úrsula Goyzueta participates in the defense of Santa Barbara during the Bolivian War of Independence.Roca, José Luis (2007). Ni con Lima ni con Buenos Aires: la formación de un estado nacional en Charcas. Plural editores. . 1815: William Brown (birth name unknown), a Royal Navy sailor, is discovered to be a woman. She is the first black woman to serve in the Royal Navy."Jane Tars:The Women of the Royal Navy" by Susan Lucas from Aboutnelson.co.uk, last accessed 12 February 2006 1815: Several women are found dead in British uniforms after the Battle of Waterloo, among them Mary Dixon, who dies in service after having served sixteen years in the British army dressed as a man. 1817: La Pola is executed by the Spanish after having served as a spy during the Colombian War of Independence.Adams, Jerome R. (1995). "8, La Pola". Notable Latin American Women. Jefferson, North Carolina: McFarland & Company. pp. 75–82. . . 1817: Martha Christina Tiahahu fights against the Dutch colonial government in Molucca, Indonesia. 1819: Manono II, fought along with her husband Keaoua Kekuaokalani, in the Battle of Kuamoo, where both perished in defense of the kapu system.Ellis, William (1827). Narrative of a Tour through Hawaii (2 ed.). London: H. Fisher, son, and P. Jackson. 1819: María Antonia Santos Plata, a Neogranadine (now Colombia) peasant, galvanized, organized, and led the rebel guerrillas in the province of Socorro against the invading Spanish troops during the Reconquista of the New Granada; she was ultimately captured, tried, and found guilty of lese-majesty and high treason, sentenced and ultimately put to death by firing squad.Horacio Rodríguez Plata, Biblioteca de historia nacional : Antonia Santos Plata: genealogía y biografía, vol. 110, Academia Colombiana de Historia, 1969, 261 p.

1820s 1821–1824: Laskarina Bouboulina fights in the Greek War of Independence.Jennifer S. Uglow, Maggy Hendry. The Northeastern dictionary of women's biography. UPNE, 1999 , p. 81: "Greek freedom fighter." 1821–1823: Manto Mavrogenous fights in the Greek War of Independence.Fodor's Essential Greek Islands: with Great Cruises & the Best of Athens By Fodor's Travel Guides 1821: Rallou Karatza participates in the Greek war of Independence.Jennifer S. Uglow, Maggy Hendry. The Northeastern dictionary of women's biography. UPNE, 1999 1821–1824: Adamantia Grigoriadou participates in the Greek war of Independence. 1822: Angélique Brûlon, a female soldier who had fought in defence of Corsica from 1792 to 1799, is promoted to lieutenant. She had originally fought while disguised as a man, but eventually fought openly as a woman. She retires the same year.Jean-Loup Avril 1000 Bretons: dictionnaire biographique. 2002, p. 133 "Marie-Angélique Duchemin quitte l'armée, puis est admise à l'Hôtel des Invalides où elle passera 61 ans. ... Ce ne sera que par décret du 15 août 1851 à l'occasion de la fête impériale que Marie-Angélique Duchemin, veuve Brulon, figurera ..." 1822: Maria Quitéria fights in the Brazilian war of independence.Brazilian biographical annual, Volume 2, By Joaquim Manoel de Macedo, pp. 493–496 1824: Queen Kittur Chennamma of the Kittur kingdom in India participates in several campaigns against the East India Company.A Life to Remember: An Autobiography Balawant Shankar Joshi · 2015 1828–1830: Tarenorerer leads a guerrilla band of Aboriginal Australians of both sexes during the Black War in Tasmania.Australian Dictionary of Biography

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