Did you know that a 17th c. Irish woman went to war in disguise?

"Christian Davies" ran a pub until, aged 26, her husband vanished. Upon learning that he was in the British Forces, she cut her hair & joined.

She fought in the Nine Years War, killed a sergeant in a duel, soon fought in the War of Spanish Succession...& found her husband after 13 yrs.

But he had cheated, so she instead stayed a soldier.

It would be 16 yrs until she was discovered.

She was buried with full military honours.