WOMEN IN BATTLE.

Thames Star, Volume X, Issue 3090, 13 January 1879, Page 1

WOMEN IN BATTLE.

Mrs Leronx, widow of a Lieutenant in the Forty-eighth Raiment, British army, has just died in England at the age of 88. From the passage of the Donro, May 12, 180!*—she was then only 19—till the battle of Salamanca, July 23,1812, she was the constant companion of her husband in Spain. An English paper recalls the fact that Senator Gordon's wife was with him constantly during the civil war; that in the Burmese war of 1826 three young and handsome native women of rank, who were supposed to be gifted with supernatural powers so that no bullet could wound them, rode among the levies encouraging them to fight against the English; and how, on almost every battle-field! the corpse of a woman is to be found among the slain. Sergeant Major Cotton, in his "Voice from Waterloo," says that there were many females found among the dead, and that all of them wore male attire, and were known io haTe been as martial in their bearing and courageous as the ordin* ary rank and file. Just at the moment when Shaw, the life guardsman, fell mortally wounded, "after haying killed nine of his steel-clad opponents," a French officer, \*rhdsei horse had been shot under him, sefaed the regimental colors of the ThirtysecoJ\4 foot, which were carried by Lieut. Belched A struggle ensued; and the Frenchman endeavoured to draw hit sword, wh «n. he was wounded in the breast by the th^tt. 8' of a halbert, and was immediately shot dead by a soldier named Lacey. It was in Tain that Major Toole exclaimed when it was too late, " Save that bra re fellow!" and after the battle the generous Major and Colonel Brown discovered that the French hussar officer whom Lace.V had shot was an exceedingly handsome young lady.