The female soldier: or, The surprizing 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 men's 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 in 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 12 wounds. Likewise the surprizing 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 surprizing incidents that have happened in any preceding age; wherein are laid open all her adventures, in mens cloaths, for near five years, without her sex being ever discover'd..
[London] : Printed in Bow Church yard London,,
1756..
Woodcut on title page.
ESTC
Snell, Hannah, 1723-1792
Great Britain. Royal Navy
Transvestism
England London.