A remarkable Irish woman and soldier
Series: Ulverscroft Softcover
Publisher: Ulverscroft
Published: 2015
Place of publication: [Place of publication not identified]
Language: eng
Number of pages: 328
ISBN-13: 9781444822557
Subjects: Soldiers; Biography; Cross-dressers; Military History
Description: Christian 'Kit' Cavenaugh, born in 1667 in Dublin, grew up on a Leixlip farm. A dragoon in the Marlborough Wars, Kit led an adventurous life, courting women, fighting duels and arguing a paternity suit before the truth became known: Kit was a woman. After her husband and father of her three children was press-ganged into the English army to fight in the European wars of the early eighteenth century, Kit disguised herself as a man and enlisted to find him. When she finally came face to face with him in 1704, she was enraged to find him in the arms of a Dutch woman. Kit's adventures did not end there ...
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