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de la Rochefoucault -- Madame Dufief (War in La Vendee) -- Felicite and Theophile de Fernig, Officers on Dumouriez's Staff -- Mary Schelienck -- Therese Figueur, French Dragoon -- "William Roberts," the Manchester Heroine, Sergeant in the 15th Light Dragoons and the 37th Foot -- Mary Anne Talbot, Drummer in the 82nd, Cabin Boy on board the Brunswick, and Middy on board the Vesuvius -- Highland Soldier's Wife at the Storming of New Vigie -- Susan Frost -- Peggy Monro (Irish Rebellion) -- Martha Glar and other Swiss Heroines -- Queen of Prussia at Jena -- Marie Anne Elise Bonaparte, Princess Bacciochi -- Maid of Saragossa -- Manuella Sanchez, Benita, and other Heroines of Saragossa -- SpanishFemale Captain -- Mrs. Dalbiac (Battle of Salamanca) -- Ellenora Prochaska, Private in Lutzow's Rifle Corps -- Augusta Frederica Krueger, Prussian Soldier -- Louise Belletz, French Artillery Soldier -- Mrs. Heald and Mrs. Helm (Chicago Massacre).
The Furies were the female warriors of the Reign of Terror. When we think of their ferocious bravery, their barbarous, maniacal cruelty, the ascendency which they held, even over the great Republican leaders, their wild cries and still wilder deeds, they seem more like the weird figures in some hideous German legend than real, living, sentient women, with human hearts. Women, indeed, they could scarcely be termed; Amazons they were, as brave and as cruel as those of the Euxine. Yet, fiends though they appeared, they had often the pangs of hunger to goad them on; and if cruelty such as theirs _can_ be excused, starvation is the most reasonable plea that could be advanced.